Cobaltix Reviews

- Almost no time will be spent in the office. - Mandatory monthly meeting held during evening hours and unpaid. You do get fed, however. - 10 out of 30 people (most of the most senior employees) have left the company since April. - You need to be on-line 24/7. - Upper management will try to nickel, dime, and generally take advantage of you if you let them. - You are paid out a $5000 / year vehicle stipend, you are not reimbursed per mile. - A lot of clients are outside the city around the Bay Area, so depending on where you get put, you might have to do a lot of driving. - Some clients are not great and have small boring networks and a crappy office in the boondocks. Not really their fault, but just a reality of consulting. - Strict neat business casual dress code. No jeans permitted unless you're racking, cabling, or moving. - Upper management can be very unpredictable in client meetings and dealings. They want to be involved, but sometimes should take a step back. - Overtime? What's that? If you work on the weekends you will be billing clients, but you will receive nothing yourself.

- Don't let the manipulatively glamorous job posting and website trick you. This is an MSP (Managed Service Provider) and nothing more; an IT services meat grinder where you are the meat that’s ground into cash for the owner. - Don't let the 5 star Glass Door reviews fool you, they are written by management. Compare the tone/verbiage in the 5 star Glass Door reviews with the tone/verbiage in the job posting and see for yourself. Be smart and use the lower star reviews to make your decision on whether you want to work here. - The clients are small businesses with outdated infrastructure who do not want to spend any money. Nothing glamorous about them, you will be treated as a computer janitor. - You will be required to drive your own car to far away clients and not be reimbursed per mile, only a flat rate for the year (if you make it that long) that doesn't cover gas, tolls, mileage, wear and tear, etc. - If you have a pulse and know what a USB port looks like you will be hired (even though the job posting makes it seem like this is some kind of elite IT task force HA HA), worked into a pulp making money for the owner and then eventually quit when you get burned out. The turnover rate is excessive, see for yourself how many ex-employees lasted more than a year. - You will be doing 90% desktop support and 10% light engineering work even though you get a fancy title. Expect to be crawling around under desks wearing slacks, replacing toner and working long hours fixing crappy computers that clients don’t want to pay to replace.