Metron, Inc. Analyst reviews

Imagine building a company for the last 20+ years of your life, starting as an entry level developer and becoming VP of the division, making it one of the best performing divisions in the company, and when you take the unsolicited opportunity to review your division all you can come up with is “Great company. Takes care of the employees and works on interesting and challenging problems.” Now imagine after about 10 minutes into interviewing a candidate (an hour and a half process) the decision to not hire the person has been made (no ifs, ands, or buts, it was a NO) but instead of politely telling the candidate it’s not going to work out you have to continue to waste everyone’s time because HR doesn’t want the candidate to leave a bad review online. I can only assume the review by the VP was a hasty attempt to bring up the average rating, just like the other, similarly brief, positive reviews of the San Diego division (we suspect multiple are from HR or at least instigated by HR). How else are you going to bring up the ratings when heavens forbid you actually make meaningful changes? Which leads me to my next topic… These types of things are the epitome of what is wrong at the San Diego ORCA division, their priority is ratings and appearances. The other reviews on here describe the specific details, details that are so accurate other employees revel in it. Employees try to tell upper management and HR these issues and how to fix them but the people willing to speak up and try to help eventually give up. It’s like screaming into a void; nothing ever happens and they seemingly don’t want critical feedback, they just want affirmation (it’s like when someone asks “does this make me look ugly”). So instead of listening to the people with insight to these issues (combined 15+ years of firsthand experience and/or time spent listening to and understanding the grievances of others) , management seeks the guidance of people with almost no experience at Metron, who have no understanding, or even awareness, of these deep rooted issues within the division because they came in at the top and thus never experienced these situations, never lent an ear to those that did, and will never have candid relationships with those who have. So yes, Metron, the actions of your upper management do, repeatedly, make you look ugly.

This company runs on unjustifiably inflated egos and petty office politics. Salaries are completely arbitrary. Do not waste your time trying to decipher their system or fight for a fair wage, you are more likely to face retribution than to achieve a satisfactory outcome. You will have better success just finding a new job. Performance Improvement Plans are handed out like Halloween candy, exposing the weakness of management. In fact there is no management, let alone leadership—just the guys who have been around the longest. Ironically, the HR representative is wildly unprofessional, making a pattern of letting sensitive information slip and lodging insulting accusations at employees. Turn over rate is monstrous to keep bodies in chairs for contract money. Employees hemorrhage out the door once they realize how mind numbing the work is. This primary reason for leaving is openly and apathetically admitted by management when questioned how they plan to address the turn over rate—“the work is the work.” Day to day tasking may include changing all the lines in a diagram to a certain color then being asked to change them all back again, scouring government resources for documents of dubious usefulness that may or may not exist, or preparing a set of slides to certain specifications by some completely arbitrary but URGENT due date only to have all the specifications spontaneously changed upon review. Sycophancy and pretending to know more than you do are ardently promoted. Recent STEM grads looking at the analyst position—you will not do any science, engineering, or math here despite how they like to advertise themselves. The technology you use is convoluted, buggy, and utterly inapplicable to any future job.