SCS Engineers reviews about "manager"

Everyone is expendable from low level tech to senior project manager and the turnover is high.

Poor communication and transparency. Will make you work above your title to get experience before a promotion, but won't promote. Management plays favorites. Claims to value input, but if you do too much you'll be out of favor. Culture is very much about working over time and getting stuff done. Certain PMs have poor work life balance.

Can be sink or swim. Different offices/business units can be challenging to work with. Can feel understaffed at times.

No regard for safety, project managers care more about projects than employee regardless of weather conditions, equipment conditions, personal life. No work life balance, Expected to do work over weekends, Rarely compensated for overtime.

No true support. The managers did not listen well. Upper management only reached out when it was too late.

I was frequently left without projects to work on, leaving me to have to ask other project managers for work to do. I was eventually laid off due to lack of work available to me.

Determine project work flow and training.

Billable hours- a lot of time was wasted on projects due to poor job specific training. The slow periods lasted weeks to months but it was emphasized that your billable rate must be at a certain level despite the level of work load being out of your control. Job specific training was non existent and a figure it out approach was used. No two days were the same which can be a pro but due to the inconsistent nature of work, learning fast was a challenge. Manager was a great worker, strict at times with high expectations, but was too busy to train and often delegated work at the last minute. It would take several years for upward mobility in this role.