SSB Consulting Group Reviews

I feel most things go back to an inexperienced leadership team. As another review highlighted, there's a lot of talk of transitioning to a SaaS company. While fundamental problems with that direction are placed behind smoke and mirrors, they provide a facade of progress by constantly changing things like team structure, how the work is assigned/distributed, etc. What that ended up meaning for me, a senior software engineer, is that I spent my days using outdated practices and technology to upload customer data (think of it as uploading a different Excel file to a different database everyday). There were exceptions; I periodically wrote a little bit of software and performed various other tasks, like for example, re-configuring applications after a member of the leadership team moves databases to new servers over a weekend without telling anyone. And to ice things off, when I resigned with over 2 weeks notice, they made my resignation effective immediately. It wasn't so much that it was immediate, but the way it was done. They deactivated my account without any communication to me. It was very Milton-esque (Office Space). To this day, I haven't heard a word from my supervisor or anyone up the chain. I never even got back the few things I had at my desk.

Long hours. Company expected everyone to work 50-60 hours per week. Since all the staff and management were young, they lack realistic expectations of the amount of time a deliverable takes. All work had to be billable to a customer. No room for overhead, training, or infrastructure work to build a better product. They use lots of free tools to avoid infrastructure and hardware costs.