The SAVO Group Reviews

3.3

61% would recommend to a friend

(91 total reviews)

Jason Liu

69% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

The SAVO Group has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 91 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The SAVO Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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91 reviews
1.0
25 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are great. I made a lot of friends there.

Cons

I worked there for 5 years. As soon as I turned in my notice that I was leaving, for the next 2 weeks, not one person in management talked to me. Actually seemed like they even avoided eye contact. Not one said thank you. Not one said good luck. Not one said anything. So The BIGGEST con of all is that you will work there, and do everything you can for the company, and when you feel that you and the company are no longer growing together, they will feel betrayed, and will shun you for the rest of your time there, making your time there feel unimportant, and meaningless. Flat team structure for development, but Management still pushes technology choices and makes all the decisions, or overrides the teams if they don't agree with the decision. Management imposes unobtainable timelines. Management will make the technology choices (not on everything), and then when it doesn't work, or isn't completed by when they said it should be, they want to know why you didn't finish it by then. Product Management doesn't know what they want to create. They change direction constantly. More trust is taken from the word of a consultant than their own people. If a consultant says they need to use 'NewWidget', then they use 'NewWidget'. If the consultant says 'SuperWidget' is a dying technology, even though it is the industry standard for Widgets and it is being used in house today, then they will ditch 'SuperWidget' for 'NewWidget'. Management likes to use 'Trust me, i've been doing this a long time' as the reason their choice is better than yours. A lot of responsibility falls on the Engineering team if they don't know who 'owns' it.

2.0
6 Sept 2016

From the Fed Up Five

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people are the best part of SAVO. I'm not sure why many of them stay. I'm glad that many of them are here. They make the place tolerable. They are flexible with working schedules for family and medical issues. The insurance is very good and covers a lot of the expenses. They feed us free and well.

Cons

The lack of diversity is appalling. There is only one (male) director of color. All of the other men of color (in various positions) have been laid off. The deserving women of color are overlooked consistently for promotion. There are no females of color at the director level. But we are guessing that since they are a private, they do feel the need or urgency to promote anyone of color at the company. HR caters to upper management only. The EVP makes promises and rarely follows through. She does not hold upper management accountable for completing reviews or promotions or making career paths for promotions. It is now worse with Agile and movement from place to place manager to manager and no recognition of accomplishments or contributions to the company’s success. Also HR offers lower salaries with the promise of great bonuses. DO NOT TAKE A CUT IN PAY AS YOUR SALARY WILL NEVER RECOVER!!! Many of us still are making what we made five years ago! More broken promises from the QA and HR departments in 2015. They were promised six weeks to learn automated testing. They were laid off after only three weeks. We are forced to learn on the fly or just die. They begin with good intentions, but, of course, they fall to the wayside and nothing is completed and the employee is ignored.

1.0
1 Dec 2016

toxic management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people, but they are slowly 1 by 1 dropping out.

Cons

I could probably write a lot here, but a piece of advice, if you're thinking about interviewing or accepting a job offer at SAVO, do yourself a favor and do not do it.

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