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Virtual Surveillance

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Incompetent and directionless - Associate Virtual Surveillance Employee Review

1.0
4 Jun 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Realistically, only the people. This place is a job, not a career. The people I worked with made it enjoyable and were the primary reason I stuck around as long as I did. The last I heard, they gutted the staff so I don't know if this is still applicable. They leave you to your work if you demonstrate competency. They left me alone, but other people got badgered quite a bit.

Cons

Very flat company structure, there's no possibility of promotions or upward advancement of any kind. Management is inexperienced, arrogant, and clueless and also has a "Suck it up. I don't care. Do it." attitude on a lot of issues that come up. Upper management is unreachable. You can't get a directive on an important issue so you have to resolve it on your own, only to get chewed out later when they finally come out of hiding days to weeks later and disagree with your decision. Upper management also tried playing office politics in an attempt divide the company and turn them against one another. They would tell one department one thing while telling the opposite to another. Deceptive business practices with our resellers, installers, and vendors that led to NUMEROUS setbacks with our projects. Non-competitive pay. Annual reviews are not guaranteed and you have to fight for them. Multiple people hadn't had a proper review in 2+ years while I was still there.

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Cons

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Pros

- Industry (and company) has enormous growth potential. - Plenty of opportunities for new hires to improve the company's operations, infrastructure, & resources. - Plenty of openings for new hires to carve out a permanent role in the company hierarchy. - Management is understanding and accommodating. The owner genuinely wants employees to be happy and enjoy coming to work. - Management employs hand-off approach to managing employees, provided they know what they're doing and are capable of producing desired results on their own.

Cons

- Company culture is one of apathy and negativity. Bad apples are ruining the bunch which makes it a very toxic work environment. - Management is slow to make changes when they're desperately needed. - Employee feedback is valued, but rarely acted on. - Management does not have a clear roadmap. - Too much focus on the bottom line (have to spend money to make money). - Company growth is paralyzed by indecisiveness & penny pinching. - Constant uphill battle to get anything accomplished through normal channels. - Few opportunities for vertical advancement within the company hierarchy. - IT resources / infrastructure is in a horrible state. At least one system is down every day. - Company is disorganized and numerous people wear multiple hats that cause them to keep odd hours which can stifle the overall office's productivity when they have to wait for specific people to get back to the office to move forward on a project.

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