Outstanding colleagues; Outrageous expectations from employees - Mechanical Engineer -- Structures Analysis Quest Global Employee Review

4.0
11 Aug 2013
Recommend
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Pros

You gets to work with very friendly and energetic colleagues. The work that I do (Finite Element Analysis) is challenging and fun.

Cons

Too much expectations from employees. Being an outsourcing company, QuEST has a performance metrics called the applied ratio. Basically, at the end of the week you have to submit two types of hours worked for the whole week: 1. billable hours. This is the hours that you billed customers that does not cost QuEST money. 2. non-billable hours. These are basically hours involves training, management, etc. that uses QuEST money. The goal is to have an applied ratio of >93% for the whole year. The catch is, your vacation and personal days are counted as non-billable hours, so basically if you do the math, taking a full 2-week vacation and working regular 40 hours a week will not allow to meet the applied ratio mark. You have to work overtime to "make up" for the hours used for vacation, which is absurd.

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5.0
13 May 2026
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Pros

Great way to fast pace your career growth Learn a lot about growing a business and owning P&Ls early on in your career Company gives back to employees Work life balance

Cons

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2.0
3 July 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Mostly good people to work with. A couple bad apples. Flexible work schedule and accommodating when possible.

Cons

This is not a long term employer. No such thing as a direct hire full time employee. It is a contract company and when a contract is complete, so is your paycheck and/or job. True from junior employees up through executive staff. If you don't have billable hours to a contract, beware of the furlough/layoff. Very high turnover of employees. The bottom line will always win.

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