Several, mainly stemming from Management.
- The company started in 1974, and has not grown, but is shrinking.
- Clients are always angry, and managing their expectations becomes impossible due to the insufficient staff size that supports them.
- Over promise and under deliver model.
- Employees that earn commission will not be taught how the commissions are calculated. You will need to figure that out on your own.
- Commissions are always wrong and never in favor of the employee. I had several new co-workers that came into my office and asked "how does the commission come out to this?" when they receive their statement and wonder why it is so low, or why they don't get anything that month. This is why it is important to know how it all calculates, and to audit it every month.
- The comp plan was changed three times in 4 years.
- Also, monitor your vacation, because that has disappeared from several employees, and you have to audit your own pay stubs and PTO days to have it straightened out. If you do not, it will not be acknowledged. When you bring it to the Admins attention, prepare for a confrontational debate.
- Revolving door for the engineers. Can't keep good ones around. There are still a couple left, but for how long?
- In my time with this company, they had two cloud teams walk out. The first walked out on the same day, leaving the company and their clients with no cloud team. Four years later, the second team left within a month of each other, and the company hired one person that knows AWS to manage the job of the 3 people that left.
- With the loss of cloud members, the call rate for extremely disgruntled clients is through the roof.
- You will be "encouraged" to pay attention to your emails while on vacation, and respond if necessary, though you will be told that you don't have to later.
- When you go above and beyond, it will be expected everyday. This quickly becomes tiring.
- Management frowns on remote work, and prefers that everyone comes to the office.
- Management is EXTREMELY political. Get on board, or keep it down.
- Once this review is posted, be prepared for several current WAMS employees to list how great the company is in hopes to get a $15 Starbucks card from management.
- You can verify all of this by reaching out to past WAMS engineers and account managers that can be found on professional social media sites. You have been warned.
