Great Company and even Better people - Help Desk Engineer Lanspeed Employee Review

5.0
27 Nov 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I have been working for Lanspeed for 1 year now and I am so grateful to have got the opportunity to work for them. The pay is competitive and benefits are good considering it is a small company. But best of all the people there are amazing to work with from the bottom to top management. We are all a team here and no one is treated like less important because of the position they hold.

Cons

No cons whatsoever Lanspeed is awesome.

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5.0
17 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Positive environment. Customer first policies. Employees matter.

Cons

Small company, so it is hard to get away with wasting time. lol

1.0
25 Jun 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

As an MSP, you have an opportunity to touch a lot of different technologies, and learn those technologies. There are a lot of opportunities to work on technical projects. The older engineers are a vast source of knowledge, and this can be great if you are just started in IT.

Cons

Unfortunately this is not a company I would recommend working for. Management culture is poor, with management more often than not pushing things off onto direct reports. Management doesn't want to deal with customer service issues, so pushes those off onto their subordinates too. General blame culture of scapegoating service desk engineers for issues, while protecting management and the business owner. The owner will act as though they care for their employees, but then has no issue scapegoating them to clients if something goes wrong. Definite churn and burn culture, with engineers worked to the bone, stressed and relied too heavily upon. There is no culture of knowledge-transfer, so engineers who try and take vacation are often paged or interrupted because the business has not set other engineers up for success. While there are some good people in this company, the management team is severely lacking, and shirks all responsibility to their reports, while paying people far below industry average for their roles. Managers are never interested in "managing" and providing a buffer for their employees in customer service issues. If that wasn't enough, the benefits are also paltry. If you work in a higher role that does project planning and implementation, forget being able to do those. The service desk is so disorganized, you'll spend all of your time dealing with service tickets, while management asks you why your projects haven't been completed. If you do get any real work done, be prepared for other team members to be unresponsive, unhelpful, and potentially lazy. There is of course no recourse for these employees, leading to faster burnout for real workers. Be prepared to work inside of an outdated system of ticket churning, where there is no automation or actual technology implemented around tickets, just a huge number of them.

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