Vantaggi
Motivated and helpful sales team. Friendly downstairs staff. Great view if you work upstairs. Desks are very nice and comfy to sit at (but dividers might have helped during COVID seasons). Building is in a great location right off the freeway and with very little traffic. Management was originally open and receptive to new and innovative ideas. Encouraged incentive distributions within individual departments, so managers or leads could motivate their respective teams. Working here, you're delightfully exposed to the latest-and-greatest HPC/Server hardware. If you're a PC enthusiast, you may even love it here, and hopefully they nurture that desire into ambition to help the company trailblaze through Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) nuances that are sure to come. The clients you work with are very prestigious, and you will definitely feel like a cog for thinktanks all over the world. Feeling like you're a part of the future is a huge self-motivator during dull stretches in your personal life. I very much enjoyed working at Exxact and instilling this vision onto anyone who I have worked with or worked for me.
Svantaggi
On my last day, I had many 1-on-1's with colleagues that made me change what I originally had planned for this section of the review. In the end, I'm happy that I worked myself into a position where I was seen as a great manager, empathetic and always-supportive towards employees and clientelle all the same. I finally realized the changes the upper management wanted to put into place was not going to nuture those qualities. Personally, the changes did not seem like a 'course correction', it was simply 'break us' and then compel us to metrics without seeing 'how' we provided good service. I guess such is the tale for growing companies whose tops want their metrics to meet their expectations/format. There's nothing wrong if you want change, it's really how you go about it, and I personally think it was done in the worst way possible to me... A little appreciation and support from upper management might have downspilled everywhere else and changed that specific situation, but we move forward.