myNetWatchman Reviews

The management will tell you about how they are the most together, close-knit, family-like work atmosphere you have ever worked in, in your life, until you need to go to the doctor for something a couple times and then it becomes a problem. A "tone down the appointments" kind of problem. Then they will force you to use your PTO. Maybe this isn't something that's an issue, but I've never had an employer force me to take PTO for doctors appointments. Do you have kids? Are they sick? You will use your PTO, working from home is only allowed in the company for certain people. Your work? It seems to be secondary here. Don't be surprised if a supervisor hauls you outside to talk to you on a bi-weekly basis to talk to you about everything but your work. The most important things are coming in and becoming friends with your co-workers. You might get written up if you look at your cell phone during group lunch, always have your eyes on the bosses and make sure to talk. Otherwise, you're probably going to get a talking to for not talking enough. This may not bother you, and that's fine, people have different personalities, which I'm not sure if this company understands. Just make sure you talk a lot, seriously, the talking is more important than anything here, otherwise, you may get fired. Also understand that, while you only are asked to work 40 hours from the company office itself, the work never actually stops here. Everyone is on-call, all the time. Work first. Did something break? Is it your fault? Is it something that you can fix directly yourself? No? Cool, you need to wake up and call someone to let them know of the problem because....well....no one is sure why this is how it works because the management all have the same alert system you do so they could very easily skip a step and be notified of these failures on their own but choose not to. This is essentially their version of hazing I guess. The new guy needs to wake up and call management, just know of this ahead of time. While the other employees are nice people, they eat, breath, and sleep this job. You will wake up to many a group chats regardless of the day or time. Again, this may not bother you, it doesn't bother a lot of people and that's fine, but there are also a growing number of people who get bothered by this kind of seemingly non-stop work environment and you should know that's what the environment is like. Which is odd, that they could ask you at any moment to hop on your work laptop to take care of something from home but not allow you to actually work from home at the same time. Did I mention to talk a lot? The company is so infatuated with needing to talk to each other that you may be asked to read e-mails to people. I wish I was joking, but that became a duty, to read the e-mails that everyone in the company got to them. Management treats everyone differently. There are 2 other reviews for this company on GlassDoor and they mention something similar, those reviews are more or less right on the money.

Technical: Outdated infrastructure and methods. Hard-to-track infrastructure due to above. "Work fast and break things" attitude that leads to technical debt. No sense of direction. Disorganized(No Scrum or other development management system). Poor documentation and work tracking. Operation security concerns. Social: Work-Life balance considered "BS", expectation that your life is the company. Company culture created by operations management revolves around operations management. Seemingly mandatory social expectations related to above. Limited-to-no ability to network outside of company. Lack of Human Resources. Managerial: Lack of proper managerial training. No sense of direction or detailed time-line. Personal feelings get in the way of professional behavior. Disconnect between communicated expectations and actual expectations. Disordered purchasing priorities. (Extras/upgrades vs. essential software or office equipment) Ethics concerns. Expectation to conform. Superiority complex and poor treatment of those outside the company deemed underneath them. ex. Call center personnel Inappropriate coworker behavior not properly addressed.(Entering or within hostile work environment territory) Unequal treatment of employees. Fear of retribution from management for speaking up. Managerial work ethic a concern.