Planet Technologies Reviews

- Planet does not operate leveraging any known, well-used industry standards in terms of project management, process, or procedures, which makes it really hard to deliver. - Almost no one who works at Planet have any enterprise experience, particularly those who have worked at Planet for a long time--and it shows. - The pre-sales team is a one-trick pony, selling the same project over and over and over. - Architects spend 90% of their time doing hands-on engineering/implementation work, which we may enjoy from time to time, but it's not architecture. - The Statement of Work contracts really, really suck, which always ends up throwing the delivery teams under the bus--and upper management doesn't acknowledge this and are resistant to fixing a problem they don't believe exists. Simply put, the content, terms, and conditions you would expect to see in a written, binding contract are completely absent. - The kindest thing I can say about Planet's benefits package is that it's anemic; at worst, I can describe it as: "Why even bother offering benefits?" Medical/dental/vision is available (high deductible), and it was only this year they bothered to add an HSA, which the company contributes nothing to. There is a legal plan, which is nice to have but I'd take other benefits over this any day. They offer public transit and parking subsidies, which is completely useless post-COVID. (Why are they offering this again?) The 401k is the absolute worst I've ever seen with a 2% match up to 4% of your contribution. There are no other benefits or perks. - No bonus structure. At. All. In an industry that offers bonuses as a standard just for getting someone to sit in their chair, this is woefully inadequate. - Upper management (e.g., the owners and VP-level executives) are completely out of touch, don't understand, and don't seem to care. (At least one of them is also arrogant beyond belief, which I know because of the way he spoke to me during our initial meeting, in the first five minutes.) - 90% of the clients/projects are very small.

Only pure evil employees are welcome on the management team. Vacation policy is substandard and embarrassing. Seriously who does 2 weeks in this industry? Get with it. As far as reading other reviews, I wasn't going to write one but after reading some of the "great reviews" that come immediately after more negative, honest reviews I wonder if the HR team is paid to respond with five star reviews to counter any criticism. The three star and less reviews reflect my experience as a whole a lot more than this vague five star "everything is super" type of comments. Everything is not super. i Would not advise working here unless you want to stay in one place forever with no promotion, ever. And be prepared to eat, drink and snort Microsoft Sharepoint as if its the second coming. I would have stayed, i had a good paycheck and my reviews were great, but my new manager needed to feel competent and secure and that means getting rid of everyone remotely qualified so she can look best in comparison. So being shown the door was a blessing. Let the poison feed off itself.