Spartan Controls Reviews

-Good if you are the extroverted car salesman type personality. -Profit sharing and benefits can be good

Excellent company if you like working for sociopathic management who mismanaged their ERP transition due to incompetence. They requested some employees to work over the weekend to only then fire them the next week. They continue to take back shares of existing employees to transfer the wealth to the ever bloating upper and middle management. Do no expect to get shares and anything like previous employees compensation if you do get the chance to buy some. Spartans KPI's are best described as anything that shows you have no morals as that is a managerial requirement. Their transition to SAP for their ERP system was so terrible they have yet to implement their long term goal of outsourcing quote and technical specifications to third world countries just like their business partner emerson. Internal term for application specialist is quote donkey. Senior management is nowhere to be found outside of quarterly presentations. They claim to have a flat corporate structure which is true on paper but the reality is that it is extremely hierarchical where there is no communication or awareness by management of any of the pressing issues facing employees. This is all by design since who wants to see the negative repercussions of one's own actions. Half of the employees at lower levels are fantastic, and the other half are trying to drown everyone else to get a leg up. You can guess who gets promoted and who doesn't. Business units do not cooperate. There is a hot potato mentality about "owning quotes", and often there are quotes with mixed products requiring teamwork. Senior management spends thousands of dollars on wine in a single meal and yet for a "team building event" they payout a single drink and do not even mention this to anyone and batman their way out. There are only 2 age groups of employees, senior and junior. They hire new grads that don't know what a sane work environment and hours is. There is no opportunity for advancement unless your in the sociopathic in group. Mandatory lunch and learns with terrible cheap food from the cafeteria for low level employees. Aka forced overtime. While at the same time management orders in delivery from elsewhere at a much higher cost. When you calculate out the days off taking into account you work a 9hr day, the flex days, vacation and fixed days off it amounts to 7 days off in reality because all the other time is really just earned time off from the extra 1hr per day working.