Good Place to Start a Career, Terrible Place to Be - Cs Representative iCore Networks Employee Review

2.0
15 Dec 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of smart, driven young people to work with Company culture encourages innovation and achievement Lots of opportunities of learning and Promotion Company often hires people with little experience, giving young professionals a good way to start their career

Cons

Company culture promotes 0 work life balance--people are literally berated and bad-mouthed for not working (most often unpaid) overtime Management makes promises which are never kept Innocent people are scapegoated for the bad decisions of management No independent HR system to speak of Little to no training for assigned tasks Company operates on chronic under-staffing in all departments Independent thought on all but a very narrow range of issues is discouraged Company asks its employees to write (fake) reviews on Glassdoor People are treated as disposable Promotions are handed out based on dire need and not on necessarily on merit (this one is on and off) Problems are only dealt with after they arise, little or no pre-planning is made Lack of enough employees causes constant atmosphere of emergency Lack of training, enough people, and guidelines causes major stress for operations (project management, customer service, engineering, and field techs)

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
24 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the hardest working young employees you will ever meet!

Cons

Upper management is unreasonable and unwilling to listen to outside influences even if you have a great amount of experience in your role. Too much power is handed to the Executive team who knows little to nothing about the areas they manage (particularly in Finance) and many GAAP guidelines are failed to be followed or heeded, the accounting is often "creative". 90% of the sales team is completely unethical and flat out lie to potential/new customers. Customer service is not a priority, only revenue is. As long as you know who to brown nose with, you'll get promoted and but on a pedestal. Employees are micromanaged to the point they are incapable of self regulation and supervision if they've been there for a long time. Last but certainly not least, there is absolutely no work life balance and god help you if you have a family and family members who for various reasons have special needs. Be prepared to be expected to work 10+ hours a day and be looked at as "not a team player" if you don't. The reason for the long hours? A technology company who expects you to perform at ridiculous rates with horrible hardware setups and outdated software. You cannot succeed here while you don't have the tools or support from management.

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