Pragmatic Works Reviews

I regret you feel we are not family-friendly. I myself have four children and they always come first in my life. Because family comes first, we have paternity and maternity leave upon a new family member arriving. We pay 100% of the consultants long and short-term disability in case anything ever happens that puts your family at risk. Most consulting companies have their consultants travel 90%+. For the past few years, our team has traveled less than 33% on average, leaving more time for your family. For the most part, we also typically don’t travel on weekends. I’m not sure how you got the impression that we don’t value your family but I think our actions with our employees speak louder than any words I can say. You are correct that being an independent contractor versus consultant gives you great independence to go at your own pace. That’s the best thing I enjoyed about being a consultant for a year. The only issue is that also comes at a price of being on an island when you need help beyond Google. You also don’t know when your next gig might become available, which is what happened to me in 2008 when the economy hit the skids. When you work at a consultancy, you get the benefit of working at lots of companies each year and it’s not your responsibility to find your next engagement. Our company might not be for someone who has “normal drives” as you put it. We talk constantly about two of our key elements of our culture is to (https://pragmaticworks.com/Resources/About-Us/Company) Never Start Learning and Never Stop Teaching. We take that to heart. We spent more than $150K ramping our consulting team with training up to Azure last year and are taking a similar initiative this year to modernize our talent. Our industry is transforming right now drastically under our feet. If you don't continue to learn during this time of industry transition to the cloud, you'll be left behind making wagon wheels in a decade. So even the best of us have to work hard to keep up. I wish your experience with us could have been better with Pragmatic Works. HR spent the past few weeks having frank interviews with each active consultant. While not all the feedback was glowingly positive, none of it resembled these comments.