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Volt Information Sciences reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(900 total reviews)

Linda Perneau

77% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Volt Information Sciences has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 900 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Volt Information Sciences employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human Resources & Staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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900 reviews
1.0
Jun 11, 2008
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Pros

The other people in my department are generally very good and a pleasure to work with. The flexibility to take time off when life intrudes is great. We are encouraged to utilize all of our sick time each year, such that it is like having additional vacation time usable one and two days at time.

Cons

I can only speak for the software development group, and I don't know how the rest of Volt is. That said, I think management wise and organizationally Volt is rotten. There is no structure to promotions. Performance isn't recognized outside of a bonus for a single person at years end of a whopping $400 (not even a half percent). Technologically it is at least a decade behind. Everyone still has 15 inch CRT monitors(except a couple of guys who bought their own LCD's). There is at least one grossly incompetent Development Manager, and the other two, while not as bad, are still horrible. The CIO is clueless. She wouldn't even recognize half of the staff if she passed them on the street. They try to call what we doAgile development, yet don't even practice anything like Agile except for daily scrums. A full group of ~20 programmers, primarily supporting a couple simple C.R.U.D applications? It's ridiculous.

1.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Private contractor you can set your own work hours. You work independently of others, and you are your own boss. Don't have to worry about office politics.

Cons

Incompetent Managers, This is a communications company, and the management fails to communicate to the employees. Managers are very unprofessional, they allow personal employee confidential information to be spread throughout the office. They order "Random" drug testing that are not at all "Random". There is racial discrimination in the workplace, that is not just happening with the field workers, but with senior management as well. Sexual discrimination is allowed in the workplace. They have a lack of Human Resources management and reporting procedures. When employees are disciplined, the discipline is not fair and is not consistant with other employees who have the same or worse issues. The Benefits package is joke, and the payroll department is also incompetent. when I first started with the company almost two years ago it took them five weeks to get me my first check. This happens with a lot of new hires. VTG (Volt Telecommunications Group) is reluctant to pay their employees when the work has been done. Their payroll department conducts business out of trailers in Fresno, Ca and employees that work out of these trailers are not properly trained and have no follow-thru with the field emplyees. Supervisors ask you to work overtime, however when you fill out your timesheet for the week, you are not compensated for your worktime! VTG is completely out of compliance with the California State Labor Board, Osha, and local, Federal Labor laws.

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