Absolutely awful management - Software Engineer ArdentMC Employee Review

1.0
4 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pretty much no pros. The coworkers are friendly and the CEO is a nice guy.

Cons

During yearly reviews, they decide if they think you worked hard enough to earn a raise. If you do more than you're expected and put in extra hours, that will still not be enough for them to think you deserve a raise. There's not recognition of any kind. I was with Ardent for a while and I never got a raise or a promotion. They only promote people from the outside. The benefits were terrible. The managers are the worst managers I have ever worked with. The manager's don't know anything about what they're doing and they keep hiring under-qualified or random people to be managers, leaving everyone else that knows what they're doing to suffer.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

"Unlimited" paid leave flexible work hours

Cons

The contract we were on was set to go up for rebid. For the recompete, they knew 4 months in advance that 3+ people on the current contract would have to be dropped (fired). Instead of telling these people, they kept them in discussions as if their work would also continue. They lost their jobs with zero notice when a 4 months heads-up was possible. These people had families to take care of, kids graduating from kindergarten. During the lapse in contract funding, we were promised over and over that we would get pay for at least 2 weeks of the lapse period. The Friday before the lapse in contract, we were called individually to be told they would not be paying us in contradiction to what was promised for weeks. During the lapse in contract and recompete when we were all afraid of losing our jobs, they invited us all to a vague meeting, we naturally assumed it was about the contract we were on. During the meeting they showed an excel sheet of all the millions of dollars in contracts ArdentMC was getting and told us how great the company was doing. There was no mention of our recompete status just boasting, I would like to say it was tone deaf but that would not do justice in terms of how out of touch it was. They then lost the recompete.

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