AVI-SPL Reviews

- 401k match is discretionary. Leadership decides whether the year was good enough to justify providing the match. The last two years there was no match with very little insight from leadership. - Health insurance is marginal at best. - Annual raises do not exist. - The CEO (John Zettel currently) sent out an email in Q4 2020 stating in bold lettering that everyone would be getting an above-average raise come compensation reviews in Spring 2021. Months after the deadline for raises, he sends out an email saying only some staff would be getting marginal raises due to market conditions. Maybe you shouldn't have promised raises for everyone in big, bold lettering during COVID then? - The executive team is completely out of touch with the needs of the organization. Multiple rounds of layoffs over COVID, yet the messaging from the top is that we're stable as an organization and looking to come out of COVID strong. - The only announcements coming out of the executive team for the last 18 months is a strong focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. An opening for a new CFO comes available in late 2020. Guess who gets a hired? A 50s-60s white male. Are you getting the picture? - There have been multiple reports of local offices cooking the books and intentionally misreporting billable labor to improve project profitability. The response? Those that reported the claims are put on PIPs or gradually forced out of the organization. - Middle management is extremely bloated and poorly aligned. Operations teams reporting to sales leaders, service teams being led by managers with no business being leaders. - Engineers are a revolving door of being overworked and undercompensated. Don't expect a 40-hour week if you plan to go into engineering or solutions architecting. - Little investment into proper ERP resources. The entire US organization is operating off of a homebrew application that has been around for over 10 years and greatly limits the ability of a large portion of the org to properly operate. - Meanwhile, international portions of the business that were acquired are using updated tools, so you are unable to speak the same language as other international team members. - Compensation is mediocre. Raises will only be offered after you submit your resignation.

All departments worked in a constant state of "red alert", caused by numerous factors, including lack of standardized procedures, incomplete documentation and poor document control, and insufficient resources. Salaries were generally below industry standards. There were no regularly scheduled performance reviews & salary increases were few and insufficient. On the other hand, due to the "red alert" environment, there was always plenty of overtime to be had, which was fine if you were an hourly employee.