DIA Associates Reviews

Culture Sweat, sweat and sweat, 9 to 11 schedule, and even weekends, working extreme closely with the managers, so no privacy, no break time, lunch takes 10 minutes. Managers/partners yell all the time, no respect whatsoever. In one of my colleague's words, every girl in the company has the experience of getting yelled to tears by one of the partner. In the spirit of the management, the few people who's been there for 2 or 3 years also take every chance to work the newbies. Benefits Small company, so everything is decided by the 3 partners, and they definitely save the money at every details. You pay for your visa sponsorship, and can't get it back even if it's not filed, that is called a deposit in case you take advantage of the company! Time Off Policies 15 days of vacation a year, including the holidays, so that means 7 days excluding the holidays. And if you had a doctor visit one day and didn't work 8 hours, you won't get paid full for the day, no matter how much overtime in other days. Hiring all the time The company keeps hiring all over the year, since 9 out of 10 people would leave after they take the offer. So don't worry about it stop hiring. I referred two friends when I first started, since I didn't know about the company back then. One of my friend quit in a month because she got yelled at almost every day, the other one cried at the interview from the humiliation. I didn't dare to refer anyone after that and have been trying to advice people to be cautious about DIA.

Except the client, everything else is bad. You don’t have any benefits during the first 3 months- so called probation period. After that period the benefits and time offs are little given the amounts of effort every employees puts in every day. As mentioned by many, the company is definitely a sweatshop. It cost your life, time, health and pretty much everything. The major issue comes from that the company has a branch in China which quite often asks help from U.S site. If you have the misfortune to be involved in that project, you will not be able to go home before 12 every day. In most cases, 1 o'clock and in extreme cases, 3 o'clock. It typically lasts for more than 1 or 2 months before you can swift to a normal schedule. The company is small and has no hierarchy at all. Everything is decided by 3 co-founders and you work closely with one or two of them. They save money at every detail and take advantage of new graduates especially non-citizens who desperately need sponsorship. Usually the work-life balance is bad in such kind of small consulting firms, but what makes things even worse is the company culture created by the management. Working here is stifling and depressed. Co-founders are abusive and rude, showing no respect to employees at all, sort of sadist who pick on underlings solely for exercising power. It is quite common to see managers/co-founders yell at employees and threaten their tenure. In fact, most current employees want to leave the company so as a result the turn-over rate is extremely high at DIA. So don’t work here unless you are really a workaholic and a masochism. Those give good comments to this company are either who have not been working on that China project or already brainwashed by the management.