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2.0
2 July 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The office was fairly nice, and the Wegmens across the street was a good spot to get lunches! A coffee machine I guess. other then that not really much else to say positive other then it was a job.

Cons

Management was a challenge to deal with. Employee turnover was extreme. I saw almost a 30% turnover in a 6 month period. On top of that sales members would constantly push technological solutions onto clients that were simply wrong. The work culture was fairly terrible. Different departments had problems interacting with each other in a professional manner. On top of that the pay scale was extremely out of wack. I disticntly remember the top paid engineer being essentially useless. It doesn't sit well with other employees when they are getting paid less then someone and have to constantly clean up that individuals messes. I would be surprised if they still exist in five years.

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2.0
21 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Choice is located in Hunt Valley and at the time of my employment, those that I worked with were great, I was able to move around and get my feet wet in different areas of the business.

Cons

There are too many cooks in the kitchen and nobody seems to know what they are doing. A lot of people want to put their hands into something and have ideas, but nobody wants to implement them. The CEO is a very smart man, but doesn't have a lot of trust in his employees.

1.0
18 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Located right inside Hunt Valley/Cockeysville, MD. Great location, and the smell of McCormick's right up the road, although it had a habit of making me hungry. Some people do know what they're doing, and are worth working with. I do like the CEO, but in my humble opinion, he's effectively "cashed out".

Cons

The amount of apathy and ignorance that people try to hide by making you work harder and on the fly to cover their ineptitude is appalling. There is rarely much time for a setup for a big project, before it's due. Honestly, it seems like very few people are actually aware of how to do their job, which can leave you to picking up the pieces - all in an effort to chase small change when your time can be better utilized setting up a proper solution that doesn't need recurring band-aids because the proper way to do things would be out of scope and over the hours quoted to the customer. The lower level techs will commonly break things, and act like they don't know what happened, nor that it was their fault - when it could potentially save us hours of troubleshooting to fix whatever little thing they did wrong. There's no room to grow, the benefits are laughable, and you're expected to work before/after hours and on weekends just to make sure everything is working to stay below hours. The person who's supposed to follow up on projects for you doesn't, nor even actually preps you for what you need to do - it's all up to you and the coworkers whom you can trust to get everything running fine, everywhere. But we've been bought, anyway, so maybe things will get better.

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