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AUSGAR Technologies Reviews

4.5

89% would recommend to a friend

(57 total reviews)
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Jon Dien

96% approve of CEO

90% positive business outlook

AUSGAR Technologies has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 57 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The AUSGAR Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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57 reviews
1.0
12 June 2014

Waste of time, horrible organization

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits ans Salary are great better than average.

Cons

Deplorable Management, unethical company, endorses hostile and threatening work environment and does nothing about it! Short term contracts and becoming very top heavy! PMs are not forthcoming and essentially lie to you about length of task assignments, HR in unresponsive and deaf to hostile work environment, the company turns their heads and looks the other way.

1.0
21 Oct 2015

What I wish I could have told potential new hires

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is decent and benefits CAN be good. There was a time when this was a good and fun company to work for.

Cons

Surprise pay cuts and layoffs are typical. Benefit reductions happen every year. Senior leadership has gone from questionable to unethical. Getting a new job is an exciting and sometimes stressful endeavor. If you are considering accepting employment from this company, please think long and hard before accepting. If you have only a few years of work experience or are somewhat fresh from college, I would encourage you to avoid this company. Employee welfare, training, and good management are critical for all employees and even more so for newer professionals. This company is likely to interview you for one job, and stick you into a different job on day one. This company will over sell you to the customer, then throw you to the wolves, providing little to no coaching, mentoring, and absolutely no training. The Human Resources department lacks the legitimate authority to protect you and regularly reports everything to senior leadership. Do not go to HR with a complaint, and expect any confidentiality at all. If work/life balance is important to you, then avoid this company. Management demands an all-work culture. Give anything less and they will find a suitable reason to terminate you. When you talk to the one or two employees who have been around a while and they will tell you the company used to have culture and value, but lost both somewhere along the way. Remember, when it comes to accepting a new job, this is the only time you will hold all of the cards and control. Say NO, and keep looking. Use Linked in to locate people with this company in their past work history and reach out to them. Ask questions and be sure to get everything in writing. Before you sign anything, read it carefully. There are many great companies to work for in San Diego - Ausgar is NOT one of them.

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AUSGAR Technologies Response
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It is regrettable when sites such as this become blunt instruments used to advance someone’s malice and ill will. We believe that to be the case with this particular review. We strongly disagree with the gross misstatements as well as the characterization of our corporate leadership, culture, and care shown to our employees. We are a government contractor subject to audits, and various other forms of oversight, all of which we have always passed. Our management team are extremely ethical and conscientious about our obligations to employees. It is also of note that HR’s job (in part) is to communicate employee issues up the chain so that they can be properly addressed. The characterization that HR will not protect employees is a pointed distortion of the truth; in fact, HR goes the extra mile to work with management on an employee issue that could have resulted in a termination as it would in another company, but did not. As to sudden layoffs, although a common occurrence for others in our industry, we have had only one small layoff of four employees in the past 11 years. As you can see the author has greatly exaggerated this issue with a lack of knowledge and is missing facts. Lastly, as to not taking advice, the company has succeeded because of its flexibility and ability to adapt, both which rely on input from a variety of sources, internal and external. We welcome feedback and encourage discussion. We appreciate your time in reviewing our comments. Should you have any questions about employment feel free to contact us directly with any inquiries
2.0
10 July 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Good salaries, superior benefits, smart and intelligent co-workers who work hard. -Great monthly reimbursables for cell phone -Satisfactory tuition reimbursement

Cons

-Small company that does not win any big contracts, most are just a small piece of the bigger pie in where only 1-2 people are on task, often tasks need surge support for work to be completed, this creates a massive burn rate for the contract, it creates unstable work environment. -Employees continuously shift from task to task and the task "leads" are usually over paid figure heads that have way too much time on their hands and mico-manage.

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