You are with us or you are out - Engineer Faction Employee Review

1.0
16 Jan 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Pretty decent office. Easy to talk to people in the company since it is small. You can have an impact because it is small. Interesting technology that is behind the scenes which greatly interests me. Lots to learn here.

Cons

The management team hires people to help provide expertise. Then, when those new people have ideas different than the pre-existing ideas of management, those people are forced out. It seems that they only want people that back their already existing ideas of where they want to go or how to do things. If you have any kind of criticism at all, then you aren't viewed as a team player and once again, you are shown the door. Communication is never straight forward. Everything has to be read between the lines and you have to think to yourself "What are they really trying to say here?" It would be a lot better if they were direct and to the point instead of beating around the bush. Also, Sales is the most important team within the company.

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5.0
25 June 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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