applicants beware - Anonymous employee Pit Crew IT Employee Review

2.0
4 Aug 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The actual technicians are wonderful to work with and know their stuff. What they don't know, they are eager to learn. company does push you to get certifications and pays for them.

Cons

Work life balance is heavy on the work side. oncall weekly and your phone will go off all night for the smallest of reasons. They claim family friendly but if you choose family over working extra time (everyone is salary so no overtime pay) you will likely be terminated. And will do what they can to keep you from collecting unemployment. Very much do as I say not as I do. There are many things that could be taken care of by a third party vendor for a small fee that is easily passed on to the clients.

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Pit Crew IT Response
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To whom it may concern, First of all thank you for your feedback. Pit Crew IT believes any and all feedback is helpful in making this a great company. While we do have our engineers participate in an on call rotation for what usually equates to one day a week, this is something that is covered in our interview process in detail. We also cover our expectations in terms of SLA for after hours support in the interview process. While we fully believe in family coming first, we also do expect that on call duties are fulfilled and if they cannot be that this is communicated in a timely manner so that the backup on call can be made aware. Our belief is that a guaranteed salary is preferential to an hourly pay situation. Again, this is covered during the interview process and each employee signs an employment agreement indicating they acknowledge and accept these terms. In terms of unemployment we file all paperwork in accordance with Texas employment law and the Texas Workforce Commission renders an opinion based on the facts and paperwork provided. Pit Crew has no influence over their decision other than providing them the paperwork they ask for. Each of our owners has participated in the on call schedule, worked nights, weekends, holidays, etc.. We are firm believers in not asking anyone to do anything we are not willing or have done ourselves. Many of our competitors choose to outsource their support duties to other companies and that is their business model. Our business model and promise to our clients is to provide local people and local support. It is because of this model that we are able to achieve quality scores and SLA metrics far exceeding that of our competition. It is because of this level of support that our first client from 2005 is still a client today. Pit Crew is a company for individuals that give 110% every day because that is what we promise to our clients. This environment is not for everybody, however, we cover this in great detail during the interview process and employment paperwork. It is our understanding that each crew member has read, understood, and agreed to this when they sign on with us.

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You learn a lot and there is opportunities to learn new technologies.

Cons

As stated in the “Pros” section, you learn a lot, but they thrust things upon you when you state that you haven’t had experience working with. They say “Oh well we can help you and teach you”, but really they are setting you up for failure. There’s no employee development. They don’t have training sessions or any QA, and even as a Tier 1 expect your duties/scope to be well outside of what was stated in your job description. When I worked there for a year, it was a company of less than 20 employees (more like 15) and throughout that year, the manager/owner had fired over 10 people for reasons that just didn’t seem appropriate.

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Pit Crew IT Response
8y
To Whom It May Concern, You are correct in that there is alot that can be learned here and we touch so many different technologies, the sky truly is the limit for each individuals growth. In addition to that we do provide some technical training in CBT format and expectations are set with regards to attaining and passing certifications based upon the level of experience the individual has and where the company needs them to be in a given period of time. We also hand select the individuals performing the best and showing us their dedication to the company and will routinely fly/transport them out to offsite training sessions through out the year. Unfortunately this is not a company for someone who prefers to stagnate. We not only encourage growth, we expect it and push our team members to achieve it. This is part of what separates us from other organizations. There are multiple senior level engineers available 24x7x365 to any individual who has questions or concerns with what they may be tasked with or decisions that need to be made in emergent situations. This has been our policy since opening our doors in 2005. As stated previously, we do challenge our staff and expect them to let us know their limits so that we can understand where they are at technically and work towards gaining more experience in those areas. We have recently made changes starting in 2018 to allow for more direct oversight and continued education of the technical staff as we have long recognized this as a way to improve efficiency and service delivery to our clients. There is still a need for each individual to continue their education in their selected career field though. Our supplemental training is no replacement for that. Complaints and such do go directly to the owner and are reviewed very closely. Success stories and praise are also sent there as well. We take both forms of criticism equally as important and even share both the negative and positive feedback with the entire company so we can all learn from it. Feedback is funneled through to the support manager and a direct praise or counseling is facilitated in a one on one manner.
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