Contino Reviews

4.0

63% would recommend to a friend

(181 total reviews)

Alex Manly

70% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Contino has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 181 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Contino 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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181 reviews
2.0
23 Dec 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Great PR and marketing. Having a marketing team is actually helpful when it comes to events. Marketing helps on-site customer culture. Good company culture when it comes to friday drinks and parties (before covid). Most of senior engineers and technical principals actually know what they're doing and are very fun to work with. I personally interviewed many of the current technical principals and senior cloud leads - the talent team does listen when red flags qualifies candidates out.

Cons

When a real challenge shows up, standing up for what is right for the customer results in massive backlash from sales people, HR and the "senior" leadership team. This results to squads giving up to mediocrity. You're only listened if you comply to sales and PR groupthink. Complete political $$-minefield if you decide to fight for your customer. Fighting internally for your customer is a death sentence. At the end of the day, nothing more than a "cool" body shop disguised as boutique consulting. Do not sign for a perm position. If you want to join, go for a high rate contact. Contino sells you @ twice your $/h rate - make it count. After acquired by Cognisant it's not rare to see dozens of randoms that can't even mute a mic showing up to zoom calls as part of your squad. Covid remote work policies are very selective and used against full time employees. Do not join if you expect Covid common sense.

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Contino Response
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We appreciate everyone’s perspectives and experiences are unique and different. We always welcome constructive feedback and have actively acted on feedback provided by the team in service of continual iteration and improvement. However we must respectfully disagree with much of what you have posted as it is factually incorrect. We encourage you to speak with one of the People Operations team, your leader or a member of the leadership team to see if we can address some of your concerns and rectify your experience with us. We pride ourselves on being a business who values and appreciates our people. In fact this was exemplified by our recent engagement survey where we scored 92% as voted by our people. We recognise that there is always room for improvement, which is why our communication is driven by authenticity and transparency. We also recognise that the world of consulting is a challenging one and is not always the right fit for everyone. Our unique squad model has been purposefully designed to bring together team members from all facets and functions of the organisation to ensure that our customers are in receipt of a quality outcome every time. The combination of skill sets our squads bring to a customer means that we encourage diversity of thought and expect our teams to respectfully challenge each other's thinking in order to ensure the customer receives the right outcome every time. We do not favour our sales community any more than we do our technical - because we are well aware that without one, the other will not be successful. We provide our customers with an outstanding level of service and as such we pay our people well within industry benchmarks, additionally the level of benefits on offer are in excess of most in the market. It is worth clarifying that as with all organisations, contractors are paid a premium as they are not eligible for the same benefits or security as a permanent employee. With respect to your comment regarding COVID remote working policies, our team has been working remotely since March 2020, and while our offices have recently opened for voluntary return, all team members have been advised that remote working continues to remain available to them. To date, not one team member has been requested or told otherwise and there is no change to our stance on remote working in the foreseeable future.
2.0
19 May 2019

Bodyshop in disguise

Recommend
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Pros

Decent perks - Brand new laptop, fancy coffee cups, stickers, t-shirts, your usual swag. Some decent people to work with

Cons

Contino had the makings of a great consultancy company. However over time the values and culture of what made it so good faded away fast. The company is driven by the sales. The work does not matter as long as it brings in the big bucks. It comes at the cost that the engineers may or may not necessarily like the work. The work itself for the most part is pretty mundane migrations with no real input or drive from our engineers to push the clients to a better way of doing things. With that in mind, engineers get the short end of the stick. Sales do not care about what you do as long as you make the client happy and you do exactly as the client asks. You have to be pretty senior or "chosen" to get any of the good projects. If you are just a normal run of the mill engineer, you will be body shopped. Where engineers can get placed is also concerning. You can be placed into a role that may be completely different to your skill set and still expect to deliver outcomes. It's rare but it happens.

2.0
18 Apr 2022

Terrible for engineers

Recommend
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Pros

Learning budget/days (if you ever get time to use them) From what I've seen we do have some talented experts in DevOps, however we lack software engineering skills

Cons

High pressure on engineers (I've never seen so many breakdowns and resignations in a short time period) While the company states it's 'Engineering First' the focus is solely on sales Regardless of what they tell you in the interview about 'squad models' it always seems to boil down to people org Engineers are left to deal with unsatisfied customers as timelines and features are promised to them without talking to engineers A fellow employee had to start taking antidepressants to help show up to work Most engineers are sticking around for the upcoming change in management to see if conditions improve before deciding to move on

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