Systemic Issue at C Level \\ Good for Starters, Bad for Long-Termies - IT Support Technician Imagine IT Employee Review

3.0
6 Sept 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1) Good breeding ground for new and upcomers. You're thrown into the mix and have a chance to learn from the bottom up. Leadership is flexible with your knowledge level and makes educated decisions to help you learn. 2) Working from home flexibility, PTO is pretty relaxed (14 days upon hire), rarely denied (if not ever) 3) Very regular meetings with your direct report to gauge where you are, they take a genuine look into your current situations 4) Stocked food & fridge. Office Manager often makes lunch for employees in the office 5) Regular events to try and have positive impact / cohesion as team.

Cons

1) PAY. In the summer of 2023 in particular, Imagine IT has lost several employees between Projects and SD. This in which generates more and more tickets. NOTHING has changed besides the final hiring of ONE entry level technician this month. Employees are fatigued, everything is promised, nothing is changing. 2) C Level is only numbers/profit driven. One of owners key words is "billable" whenever a question comes out. "This is billable". This in turn has an impact on #1 because they are pinching their pennies. 3) Ticket load is intense. Most days you are back-to-back on tickets with barely any breathing time or else you'd fall behind, causing peers to pick up slack, in turn, burning them out. Not all days, but 85-90% or so of days. 4) No real emphasis on retention. Imagine IT has lost several good employees. Will continue to lose more if they don't make changes. Big decisions take time, sure, but those decisions need to be made faster before GOOD employees start to leave. Causing unavoidable attrition in Partners, attrition in profit, and then Imagine IT C Level became their own worst enemy in terms of revenue.

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5.0
14 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Positive work environments 2. Collaborative teams 3. Regular open discussions 4. Great leadership models (No micromanagement) 5. Great values 6. Good pay and benefits

Cons

1. Growing rapidly! Somewhat of a good thing but comes with its own growing pains

2.0
23 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The location, the stocked fridge with foods, snacks and yes a beer fridge full of a large variety of beers a the weekly free lunch are very good perks.

Cons

The tiny dark gloomy office with tiny windows that from the outside resembles a state penitentiary, the weekly meeting that repeats its content and a variety of sarcastic\slapstick comments from the bored crowd of 20 some employees to go with it. The F-U Friday habit that the helpdesk manager tries to happily enforce and his lack of professionalism with his team. 2 out of 3 owners that are absent and lack true empathy for their employees but love to "share" the info on the growth of the company while keeping salaries below market and their personal achievements. A micro managed culture taken from books and misinterpreted into a cult of some sorts where people pretend to be close but really doesn't seem like it. Recently promoted and very young managers without previous experience managing people and without any people skills. At last a revolving door of techs leaving and new ones getting hired.

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