Pros
-Health and dental insurance available but Aeon Nexus pays only 50% of the premium, which is extremely low. That is the minimum required under most plans. -401K is available but matching doesn’t start until after a year of employment. Don’t expect to take advantage of it since there is extremely high turnover. -Hiring and promotion opportunities for people with little experience but even that comes with limits. There is no training, no support, low and lack of meaningful increase in pay, and no clear career path.
Cons
This is a seriously dysfunctional company in many ways. 1. It is nothing more than a mom and pop shop. The CEO and COO are married and there is no other position or HR department to check their abusive treatment of employees or illogical business decisions. 2. Staffing is a nightmare. It is a very small company with only a handful of employees. They’re always hiring because people are always quitting or being let go for speaking out. Check their social media pages and notice how it’s a revolving door of new faces. This leads to overwork and burnout among the remaining employees, who then have to take on roles that they’re usually underqualified for with little to no guidance. This is how lower level employees get promoted to a couple higher positions in a year. 3. Projects are set up to fail. They are seriously understaffed so instead of having an adequate number of people on a project, there will be only a few. Not all of those people will be qualified for their role, which means that the rare competent person will be doing most of the work and undoing the mistakes of the others. Clients will get angry because the work is low quality, deadlines are pushed back, and it’s obvious that the team they’ve been promised is just a couple people lacking the time and expertise required to do the job. 4. Decisions are impulsive and illogical. The CEO makes all the decisions without consulting anyone, except for his wife, the COO. He is very hotheaded and quick to react to situations without carefully considering how they’ll impact projects, clients, finances, and his employees. He sabotages projects by making sudden changes and then demands that his employees work overtime to pull off miracles at a minute’s notice. In the last five years, they’ve opened offices in Glens Falls and Miami that are no longer operational, which goes to show how poor their business acumen, strategy, and financial management skills actually are. 5. There is a very toxic culture of fear, intimidation, and manipulation that originates from the top. The CEO goes from extremes of praising employees one hour to shaming and micromanaging them the next. That is why he tends to hire young, inexperienced, or impressionable yes-people who he thinks won't challenge him. While the CEO can be charming at first, that doesn’t last long since the way he treats and speaks to employees is abusive and would not be tolerated at a real company. He is also never accountable for how his actions and decisions led to poor results and will instead blame employees and use them as scapegoats. As a result, some employees feel that it is okay to conduct themselves in a similar way, leading to a highly unhealthy and distrusting environment. 6. There is a severe lack of integrity. As other reviews have mentioned, the CEO misrepresents the company’s history and capabilities, promising to deliver work that the company has never done and that employees don’t even know how to do. Employees are encouraged to keep up the charade of artificially inflating their abilities, which is why using cheat sheets to pass Microsoft certifications as soon as possible instead of actually learning the system is acceptable. Just Google two articles that the Glens Falls Chronicle wrote about Aeon Nexus in 2016 and in 2017 questioning the truthfulness of the company’s self reporting. It’s really bad when even a small town newspaper knows to question their integrity.
