Solid workplace with opportunities for growth - Senior Product Manager Pit Crew IT Employee Review

4.0
18 July 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flat organization, easy to make an impact. Very smart people.

Cons

It can be a challenging environment for juniors. SaaS products with lots of structural technical debt.

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5.0
25 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

From the HR department to the owners they follow all the rules with there employees and clients. It's feels great to have support from caring owners as they love what they do and it shows!

Cons

Far from where i live.

1.0
4 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You learn a lot and there is opportunities to learn new technologies.

Cons

As stated in the “Pros” section, you learn a lot, but they thrust things upon you when you state that you haven’t had experience working with. They say “Oh well we can help you and teach you”, but really they are setting you up for failure. There’s no employee development. They don’t have training sessions or any QA, and even as a Tier 1 expect your duties/scope to be well outside of what was stated in your job description. When I worked there for a year, it was a company of less than 20 employees (more like 15) and throughout that year, the manager/owner had fired over 10 people for reasons that just didn’t seem appropriate.

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Pit Crew IT Response
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To Whom It May Concern, You are correct in that there is alot that can be learned here and we touch so many different technologies, the sky truly is the limit for each individuals growth. In addition to that we do provide some technical training in CBT format and expectations are set with regards to attaining and passing certifications based upon the level of experience the individual has and where the company needs them to be in a given period of time. We also hand select the individuals performing the best and showing us their dedication to the company and will routinely fly/transport them out to offsite training sessions through out the year. Unfortunately this is not a company for someone who prefers to stagnate. We not only encourage growth, we expect it and push our team members to achieve it. This is part of what separates us from other organizations. There are multiple senior level engineers available 24x7x365 to any individual who has questions or concerns with what they may be tasked with or decisions that need to be made in emergent situations. This has been our policy since opening our doors in 2005. As stated previously, we do challenge our staff and expect them to let us know their limits so that we can understand where they are at technically and work towards gaining more experience in those areas. We have recently made changes starting in 2018 to allow for more direct oversight and continued education of the technical staff as we have long recognized this as a way to improve efficiency and service delivery to our clients. There is still a need for each individual to continue their education in their selected career field though. Our supplemental training is no replacement for that. Complaints and such do go directly to the owner and are reviewed very closely. Success stories and praise are also sent there as well. We take both forms of criticism equally as important and even share both the negative and positive feedback with the entire company so we can all learn from it. Feedback is funneled through to the support manager and a direct praise or counseling is facilitated in a one on one manner.
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