Bancsource Field Engineer reviews

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Jeff Chick

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2.0
11 May 2016
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Pros

Able to make your own schedule with customers. You will quickly gain a vast amount of experience with a variety of different machinery, a great resume builder. Everyday presents a different challenge. You granted quite a bit of autonomy to get your work done, no micromanagement. Management is very helpful in giving you insightful knowledge if you can get in contact with them.

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First, the lack of training. There have been plenty of times where I've been placed in situations where I had to deal with machinery where I had zero hours of training on. It's really stressful when you have a customer watching you trying to figure out how to open a machine for the first time. Also I am all alone in my territory, I've been all alone ever since I started this job, when I am in situations where I absolutely need assistance either because of a lack or training or because I have too many assignments for one person to complete, well I am on my own. Also because I am alone I am always on call, 7 days a week, every weekend, every holiday. I basically have to get permission to have a weekend like a normal person. And for me to get that permission someone needs to take over my territory. Unfortunately, my company had the bright idea not to train others on some of the machines I fix. And because of that I couldn't take a vacation, or at times when I do get days off and said equipment breaks down,those jobs will not get done until I come back, leaving me with potential customer backlash. So no weekend and no vacation. What would happen if I get a serious illness I wonder? Also I was promised a raise this year, so far no one has gotten one yet and it's already May. And last but not least the driving distance of some of your jobs. You may drive, A LOT. A few of my jobs I drive 5 hours round trip. If the issue is not something you can correct immediately that's guaranteed overtime (could be a pro depending on how you look at it). However, the issue comes in when you need to go to a remote customer and a customer back home in the same day. Because I have no partners this has caused some unhappy clients in my region. Last but not least it can be extremely hard to get in contact with management at times. And now, it seems to be much worse with the restructuring of different management positions. They seem to be super busy. If I come across an issue or need advice of tackling a situation, like I emphasize before, I am all alone.

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Bancsource Response
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Thank you for your feedback. I am sorry to hear your training experience was not what we expect for our Technicians. Bancsource has 7 – Product Support Managers, dedicated to training our technicians in a world class facility in Addison, IL. Our instructors have many years of experience providing OEM training using the latest training equipment and course work. Moreover, we have recently added an additional training facility within our brand new HQ facility in Springfield, MO. Bancsource is working toward our vision to build density in all areas of the country, as we build density, we will also add technicians as warranted. We are also working with one of our new subcontractors to provide back-up technicians in remote territories and to provide weekends off for the remote techs. Bancsource completed our annual reviews with merit increase given out in February for employees meeting certain criteria. We are sorry to hear there was lack of communication with your manager. We have an open door policy that we highly encourage our employees to utilize when there are issues they cannot resolve with their immediate supervisor. In addition, as part of our services restructure, we put in place dedicated managers vs. working supervisors to improve communications between our technicians and management.
1.0
8 Dec 2014

Frustrating company to work for.

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Pros

Gain lots of experience on working on various types of equipment; other than it's better than not having a job at all, there are no other Pros.

Cons

Mediocre benefits; company doesn't match 1 thin dime on 401K, expensive health insurance, unrealistic expectations of employees, no employee reviews, management's first response is to write employees up and ask questions later; bad leadership; management tends to lead by terror and threats of losing your job or getting a salary cut instead of encouragement and mentoring, they sign contracts with customers promising service until 10:00pm at night in some cases, then come down hard on you for getting overtime. Lack of communication between departments turns things into a 3 ring circus every day when trying to find answers to problems, the office staff obviously hates their jobs as much as the field personnel do, as it comes across in "attitude" on the telephone from the call center and tech support, when traveling out of town for business they allow ridiculously small amounts for food: $10.00 for breakfast, $12.00 for Lunch, $18.00 for dinner and the amount of paperwork and hoops you have to jump through to get reimbursed. Overtime requires lengthy explanations and redundant proof. You spend more time talking about what you did to a machine versus what was actually done, illogical and pointless internal company software.

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