Logicalis Reviews

*Until whatever new policy or initiative they've imagineered dies a slow, tortured death, you have to pretend that it isn't the worst idea since the last terrible idea they had. *The training non-technical people receive is almost always geared toward sales. I'm sure that's great, if you're... you know... in sales. If not, their "leadership training" amounted to multiple days of some basketball coach running a PowerPoint presentation created in 1998 through WebEx, dropping names nobody really cared about, and reiterating a message that could be summed as: "Don't screw up." Very motivating. *There's very little incentive for management to be transparent. Nobody on the team seems happier when you say "Here's this dumb policy that I'm forced to inflict on you." (Really... I tried, and it didn't work.) As a manager, it wasn't as though my managers were more open with me. *Management at the time of this writing is "data-driven", which is a managerial way of saying "If I see two numbers, I can tell that they are different. Also, I'm tired of whatever stories you have that would convey useful information to me, or offer context for the data. Please get back to making sure everyone accounted for the time they spent eating lunch today. Did I say time they spent eating lunch today? I don't care about that at all, unless it makes their time lower than what I think it should be, in which case, I care about it very much." Obviously, you can see how "data-driven" is a more efficient term to use. *You'll have to force your team to participate in "career development" activities, which isn't so much useless as it is cruel. It's kind of like telling a kid about Disneyland, and then making them do a bunch of projects with the promise of going to Disneyland if they do a good job, and then after a year, actually taking them to Disneyland and stopping at the gate to say "Oh, I'm sorry. Disneyland is full." *As a manager, you'll be told that you have very broad authority. Good luck with that. If it isn't being undermined by someone, it's being ignored by them. Go ahead... ask about it in an interview, and you'll probably hear how the last managers were just really bad. Guess what they told me about the managers before me? Yep. *Finally, for the love of all that is holy, you will never, ever figure out how a group of "leaders" can be so tone deaf. Morale problem in the ranks? Let's show them the decked out muscle car that only sales people can win! Morale problem after arbitrarily laying people off a couple of months ago? No problem! They'll be happy to know we're suddenly looking for "fresh, young talent"!

Anyone that disagrees with Senior Management is on the chopping block. In Managed Services, there is too much work to really do the analysis that is needed for the customers. Management pretends to care, but really it is about the money. Service Delivery doesn't manage a thing, only protecting itself. All the work they "accomplish" for their customers is done by someone else. Professional Services ruins almost everything they touch. The go to a customer site, set up hardware, etc., then leave. When the items don't work, then it's up to someone else to fix them. They have moved on to a new project. Human resources is completely useless. No loyalty from them to anyone. Policies for employees are not across the board. They are more of a recruiting arm that looks for the cheapest talent possible. They create career paths, but for who? Jobs are being cut. Sales believes Logicalis is a sales company. I heard a few people say, what do they sell, sales? Sales and management forget that the product is the labor performed by the services group. They spend half a million or more every year on the sales get together. Talk about how we have to improve and it never does. In the mean time, the Sales groups lie to customers, inflate what the services products really are and get paid a lot more than anyone else. Laughing all the way to the bank. Overall the company pretends it is more than it really is. None of the leaders have a clue what really happens in the trenches. In order to have "velocity" you need a vehicle to get you there. Crazy!