Pros
None. Anything that might sound good they have will be available at other places, if not better.
Cons
***What I am about to describe below applies to one of their contracts for helpdesk and sysadmin jobs at a certain DOD agency and may not apply to everyone, affiliated at this company. However all examples mentioned are real*** Reasons you should run at the mention of this company name: 1. Extreme nepotism - I am not talking about occasional referrals. They literally take family members and take it very seriously about 'promoting from within' what really is covering up their incompetence. What they don't take seriously is their qualification. Company exec's kid, their friends, or your colleague's wife...they are all there and some of them don't even't know how to do a helpdesk ticket correctly. They will either get promoted ahead of you only after 1 year of working there at age of 23(not joking - this place is filled with not so experienced young junior admins without any specialty skills. avg age is 25ish) or make thousands of mistakes and will never be punished or corrected. You, on the other hand, will be burned out, bullied and humiliated for noticing such acts and trying to do anything constructive about it. Don't even bother telling them you have a skillset that should get you promoted next time but wrong! because they have family members to promote. Skillsets and seniority don't mean a squat there. I can't remember how many times I volunteered to help out and got ignored. 2. Petty management and hostile work environment - again at this particular contact/site not only the management is extremely biased to take their nepotism employees' favor, but also extremely petty, almost to a hostile level if you are a female that are within birthgiving age. Sure, this is not some liberal west coast tech company that showers you with benefits but this place is pretty skimpy. They don't offer paid maternity leave, they try to argue with you about how many weeks of maternity leave you want to take(um, did I say they don't pay for this, so they were squawking about unpaid leave like I was robbing them), and even after you come back if you have any signs of illness or injury they will immediately call you over and start yelling at you like 'we thought you should be healthy enough to do your job when you returned!!!' whether that condition actually had anything to do with childbirth or not. And let's not forget that they, in my case, tried to cut my projected leave as short as possible. If this is not sexual discrimination I don't know what it is. Besides sexual discrimination management does not look after you otherwise. In case you were tasked to do which you weren't sure if this is what you were supposed to do and asked for management's written statement, what will say is 'you don't trust me?' and that's it. So in case you were apprehended by building security because you were taking a government issued computer without a courier pass or a note from management assuring you are doing what you are told to do and not a thief... guess who won't protect you. 3. No one knows what they are doing - ok, maybe a few people do, but most still don't. As mentioned above a lot of their admins are very young, might have gone through boot camp to earn theirs cert but lack actual experience. IT environment overall is run terribly(it's a miracle they pass CCRI, but then again who knows). Helpdesk employees are not trained well and refused to do better job, backed by management. Helpdesk tickets are written literally like 'user needs assistance. Thanks' There is no description of what the problem is, you'd be thankful if they even filled in contact info. Which is pretty annoying to other admins or teams who has to work with these tickets. But don't you dare to bring it to their management, they have nerve to yell at other IT folks some of them aren't even Digital Consultants employees, to not ask additional information or correct helpdesk's incompetence. That YOU need to do their job so helpdesk won't get their feelings hurt. As a matter of fact, one of the most incompetent member is a nepotism employee and every time someone complains about their work, they complained back. Also management itself gets in your way of getting anything done, because they believe in going to deskside and ask how everyone is doing. What are you, a door to door salesperson from 1980s? This is IT! There are technologies so you don't have to go desk to desk every time. And the so called desk side support is severely understaffed to do that and handle called-in tickets. I can go on and on, but I've already wasted enough of my time. So my question is, do you really want to put up with any of these?
