TrueTandem Reviews

In a move to take the company to the so called next level, the partners brought in an outside Strategic Planning consultant that was ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS about how to run a small, agile boutique consulting practice focused on Microsoft technologies. Soon after bringing in this so called consultant, the corporate culture began to shift from a decentralized / flat and employee-centric environment to something just short of miserable. TrueTandem, in the opinion of this former employee, has lost its way. What made the company a beacon for attracting the top Microsoft technical talent in the world is no more, thanks to the leadership following the advice of their strategic planning consultant and "the General" that they brought in to run day to day operations. You can't take a lean, employee-centric culture focused on developing its employees to be some of the best in the industry and turn it into a "command and control" environment that saps the creativity and autonomy that so attracted the top talent in the DC Metro area. TrueTandem was a very special place. It is far from that now, and one would be wise to steer clear of this shell of a once great company if you value your career. As things stand now, you cannot trust the leadership that is currently in place to properly shepherd your career. Just look at the massive flight of talent that has left the company, in spite of (legacy) average base salaries that exceeded industry averages.

Disorganized, They do not even have their onboarding process figured out. They do not even know how t set up their work computers, you will have to stress yourself to figure it out. They put resources on a project and pull them off in the middle of the project and bring new resources who are completely clueless about the project causing delays and blame the project manager. They will blame the project manager for everything They put resources of 4, 5 projects at a time and expect 100% commitment on each. The president Steve Breiseth is a Sycophant and only want to gain new contract, so if a customer complains, they will fire you without even investigating the claim. Their SOWs for project are completely flawed, their is no clear objective or scope so the client always add things. They will hire you and fire you a week later, because a partner doesn't like you. They give false deadlines and make promises o the client during the contract negotiation stage and the project team have to deal with the unreasonable timeline later. They will fire you without giving you any warning: no verbal warning. Just straight to firing when you make a mistake