Good luck getting a raise - Anonymous employee 3-D Technology Employee Review

3.0
4 Feb 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can gain experience with enterprise IT quickly, and work alongside a group of hardworking team members. You also gain exposure to project management skills, how to/ not to implement them.

Cons

Pretty significant amount of nepotism in the company. Inexperienced leaders cause friction with the teams deployed in the field and the companies who 3-D is contracting work from. The trick here is to gain experience quickly and then move to a company with more stable benefits, hours, HR rules, and expectations. The pay is surely not worth the stress.

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3-D Technology Response
7y
We always find it tough when we hire people with no experience and train them, treat them well, and pay them fairly, to only have them leave the Company and post negative reviews " anonymously" on the internet. Unfortunately, most happy employees do not feel the need to post about how much they love their jobs as much as those who are disgruntled and attention-seeking. To address your negative comments, we understand the PMO is tough work and many times there are long hours involved. It is not for everyone and this is why many PMs choose to work as contractors- to be able to make their own hours and have some versatility in their role. The PM position also requires attention to detail and the ability to get along with, and communicate with people at all levels in the organization. We are sorry this was a struggle for you. To address your review heading: "Good Luck Getting a Raise" - We do not give people pay increases simply because they show up. The expectation of a raise simply because you come to work for a certain period of time, is an attitude of entitlement and if anything is extinct - it's that. In your instance, however, you were given several pay increases and were more than adequately compensated for your skill level and quality of work. One year of experience and training - which we provided to you, does not make you an expert in the field or qualified to give advice on our business model. 3-D is a family company, so yes, we do have people that are related that work here. We also have several employees who love the company so much that they have brought their own family members to work here as well when we have had positions that match their skill set. We welcome this and see it as a sign that we must be doing something right, if people want to bring the people they care most about to come work here alongside them. We are very aware how hard our employees and contractors work. We know that our company is nothing without the teams of exceptional people we have working out in the field. We are constantly looking for ways to make our field staff feel appreciated. We do our best to change with the times to be able to continue to offer our employees benefits that are unheard of in this industry, especially among companies of our size. We currently offer competitive salaries, profit sharing, annual bonus potential, paid holidays, PTO, health and dental, which we pay a higher than average percentage of, as well as paid gym memberships and other perks. As far as holding leadership to the same standards of hard work - you have no idea how hard the leadership team works here and the amount of time, heart and soul that gets poured into this Company. Real leaders don't need to announce how hard they are working to everyone. They just do it. Good luck to you in your new career - we hope it is a better fit for you and hope you find happiness.

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5.0
9 July 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Great employee culture -Can get started with little to no experience -Real ACTUAL chance to move forward in the company -Reimbursement for some certifications -Lower/mid management cares and fights for their people

Cons

-Upper Management means well but communicates VERY poorly and has bad organizational skills (cancels company meetings like clockwork almost every time) -Project Management and Executive Leadership tends to not learn lessons between projects or implement new ideas -WAY understaffed

2.0
27 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The Franklin HQ is in a beautiful location. VP and CEO are nice, pleasant and seem to be hard-working.

Cons

Some context: The company's bread and butter is work done by its field technicians. Looking at the job posting, one would think that the work is technically demanding, requiring an MCSA. The job, however, is not at all technically demanding; it consists mostly of menial labor. It is also from this same labor pool that 3-D Technology source talent for many of the lower functions in HQ. This creates an environment where best practices aren't necessarily followed and overvaluation of rhetoric/loyalty over technical excellence. Example: The company has put in countless man-hours and capital into their proprietary software for less than stellar results. (Note that the scope of the project is something that does not exceed a project you might expect to find in the portfolio of an above-average but not stellar jr. developer.) Much of the failure should be attributed to the fact that the product owner assigned was the sort of person that did not know the difference between agile and waterfall. Stories like this are not uncommon in 3-d. If these stories raise concern, I don't recommend that you work for this company.

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3-D Technology Response
6y
Thank you for your review. While we respectfully disagree with some of your comments, we appreciate your feedback. First of all, we do not feel that any of our employees' tasks are "menial", and frankly your comment is insulting to the good, hardworking people employed here. We value all of our resources---at every level--- and try to mentor, empower, and train our more junior employees whenever we feel they may have the ability and desire to advance within our organization. Most highly functioning teams are not made up of cookie cutter people with the exact same skill or ability level...it is through diversity that truly great teams are created. As far as your comments related to our proprietary software development, we used an outside vendor for the bulk of the development. I am not sure what you are referencing, but I do not believe your opinion to be factual and it's certainly not relevant to being employed at 3-D. We are truly sorry you did not find the work here challenging enough. We wish you all the best. Again, thanks for your feedback.
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