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Convergence Networks Reviews

3.0

45% would recommend to a friend

(109 total reviews)

Chris Remy

45% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Convergence Networks has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 109 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Convergence Networks employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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109 reviews
1.0
18 May 2022

Heartless, uncaring and incompetent

Anonymous employee
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Business outlook

Pros

There are no pros to working here

Cons

Hired after the merger you'll read about in other reviews, told during interview process those reviews reflected sour grapes, folks unhappy with the merger, and were not reflective of today's company. Sat in first All Company meeting and witnessed a Senior Executive say she would prefer to hire new people at lower wages than retain existing talent. How can you vocalize that and wonder why your employees are unhappy? In same meeting it was requested by another Executive that employees stop leaving negative Glassdoor reviews because it is impeding recruiting efforts. I quit soon after because it was apparent this company does not value its employees or customers. My team lead made a good effort to talk me out of it, promising to shield and protect me from the corporate drama, but what good is such a promise when all significant decision making happens on the other side of the continent? There is nobody in Portland empowered to do anything except supplicate to the C-Suite in Ottawa and the folks there don't view you as a human being. Bye Felicia.

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Convergence Networks Response
4y
I’m sorry you had such a negative experience, and would love the chance to speak about it, given the opportunity. We always welcome feedback, and encourage staff to leave reviews - good or bad, since it's a learning opportunity for leadership. However, the statements that you attributed to management in an all company meeting are inaccurate and out of context - they were in reference to a plan to temporarily fill in labor gaps while we searched for a way to support our existing teams, which is a pain point that was brought up several times. Also, our senior management team has representation in each of our locations, with most being in the location where you worked. If you would like to share any suggestions for improvement, I'm always available. Thanks, Mike.
1.0
18 Mar 2022

Understaffed Nightmare

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Team Leads are the only remaining Pro at this company.

Cons

All of the talent has left or has been fired. No attempts to ever staff appropriately in multiple years of employees providing feedback that we needed more staff. Post-merger management is clueless at best, and fairly hostile to their employees Admits in company meetings they'd rather focus on replacing people for cheaper than addressing existing employee concerns and retaining talent and knowledge. Severely underpays employees. Bare minimum benefits. Codified 0% raise option allows management to deny good workers raises on a whim. And one of the biggest Cons of any business I've ever worked for: Chantalle. Clueless, hostile, and the main reason the company is now failing miserably. More concerned with power grabbing than making the company better.`

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Convergence Networks Response
4y
The one thing I do agree with you in this review is that our Team Leads are second to none. Assuming one person is the main issue in an organization and that letting them go is the solution is nonsense. Our leaders are all trying. We make mistakes and do our best to learn from them. We are as an organization changing as we scale and many people aren't ready for that journey.
1.0
17 Feb 2022

Not What It Once Was

Anonymous employee
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Pros

We have good people doing their best in a broken system.

Cons

Most 5-star reviews here were accurate when written. They do not reflect the current reality at Convergence. Late 2020 it was announced we were merging with a Canadian MSP and the combined entity was to be sold to a venture capital firm. It has destroyed our culture and almost every positive you read about in old reviews. Cornerstones of our pre-merger culture were openness, honesty, and empathy. We had regular meetings with the founder of the company. He told us where we were and where we were going. During hard times he shared the plan to get to better times. His door was open and his mantra was “Leaders Eat Last.” This philosophy is gone. Morale is currently at an all time low. Virtually nobody trusts senior leadership. We are hemorrhaging talent due to an unwillingness to pay competitive wages. Lucky employees got 3% raises in a 7% inflation year. The unlucky got nothing. Every week brings new emails from HR announcing the departure of respected long tenured colleagues. We retain our open door policy on paper but no longer have meaningful access to leadership. The empathy that was once a cornerstone is gone. Our COO is a cold hearted capitalist who channels zero concern for frontline employees and seemingly welcomes the turnover. We have lost decades worth of tenure and institutional experience. The COO's response is best summarized with the shrug emoji. Customers are unhappy because wait times have increased and strangers in other cities are working their accounts. vCIOs have more clients than they can effectively support. Our project backlog is measured in months. We continue to onboard new clients with limited capacity to service them. Existing clients will soon see rate increases despite justified dissatisfaction. Prospects should have no illusions about what they are walking into. The company is coasting on goodwill and reputation from yesterday. You are looking at a heartless late-stage capitalist venture owned by absentee landlords and run by management three time zones away. Our only objective is making the venture capitalists richer. It is not the Convergence you read about here in 5-star reviews. That Convergence is gone and will never come back.

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Convergence Networks Response
4y
Thanks for the feedback. I hate that anyone in the organization feels this way. Times are tough and we've definitely changed over the course of our merger. Many of the things we used to do as a smaller organization are more challenging to do today. At nearly 200 staff, we've had to adapt our style to help scale. For many of our long standing team members it feels different and less real. We are however committed to continuing to grow our team and invest in our people which we've shared in our weekly huddles, monthly open forums and quarterly all company meetings. Our trust issues won't get solved overnight, but we're committed to helping our team unite and grow together.
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