Mgmt plays favorites, work is unbalanced - Engineer I Faction Employee Review

1.0
29 Mar 2016
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Pros

No discipline structure; If you can play politics, you'll never have to work! Work beyond advertised hours; NOC employees can expect unsupported and unassisted 12-hour+ shifts, 4 days a week (advertised as 10), and senior teams have the option to accept your emergency escalations! Alcoholic beverage consumption is scheduled and encouraged during business hours, officially AND off the books!

Cons

Management are much more concerned with KPIs than keeping employees; have grossly underpaid their best talent such that the best employees leave rapidly. Documentation is laughably incomplete and is avoided by all employees and silenced by managers. Pay is grossly out of balance with workloads; core IT staff are embarrassingly underpaid and this company falsely titles employees as "engineer" to avoid paying overtime, when after starting it's sprung on them that they are REQUIRED to work 10+ hours a week overtime. While sales persons are not required to work even full weeks and collect all bonuses available. After-hours support is non-existent; least experienced employee is stuck on night shift with less than a week of training.

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5.0
25 June 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Really impressed with how the senior leadership team has responded during 2020-2021. They are transparent and have been understanding of all of the challenges people faced during that time. The flat org structure and startup-like feel mean lots of opportunities to work collaboratively and on new things.

Cons

Need to improve diversity and representation in senior levels of management.

4.0
8 Sept 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Small Company: Since the company is relatively small, you get a lot of opportunities to touch a wide range of technology fields across software solutions, compute, networking, and storage. A lot of hands on opportunities for experience across multiple brands in each field. Great Coworkers: The work environment has been an overall positive experience. Very few conflicts between coworkers in my tenure. Competent Staff: The staff hired has more generally been experts in their fields. They have been competent in their roles and responsibilities and are all extremely helpful.

Cons

Company Direction: The last several years, Faction has changed its IaaS mindset to a "Multi-Cloud" mindset as seen in their marketing materials. While this has broadened our marketability, they have locked into searching for only large deals and it is not sustainable. Leadership: Leadership has slowly changed over the years as well. They have not taken the opinions of their engineering staff into consideration anymore in their objective changes and it has caused some employees to leave as a direct and indirect result.

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