A company run by handout-seekers - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso GaiaTech

1,0
23 ago 2013
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Located downtown. When you leave the building, there are interesting things to see and do.

Svantaggi

Everything else. Before believing the positive reviews written by sniveling, spineless little bootlickers (the company has a number of those, since they try to screen for them in interviews), you should know that several of the founding executives of the company have left in the last several years. They had all been there for 15+ years, and were considered "lifers" who had given their all to the company and put up with unbelievable workloads, accomplishing a great deal. But they're gone now, because the culture has eroded THAT badly. How? Lots of ways, worthy of book-length pursuit of the kind devoted to the forsensic examination of other companies that collapsed, a fate that will be inevitably be shared by GaiaTech. But just in the interest of brevity, they follow a business model of chronic underbidding, followed by panicky, time-wasting meetings about projects going over budget, followed by more panicky meetings to try to convince the customer to pay more, followed by a new project deal and more underbidding and a new cycle. They don't seem to understand that there might be something amiss with this model. The CEO is a living example that good luck can befall anyone, as he makes bad decisions in multiple succession then runs around like a grade-school kid trying to convince his staff to help bail him out. They also assume that employees will work overtime without additional compensation to help them meet their miniscule budgets. It is a business model based on incompetence, on unfounded assumptions, and on shameless handout seeking.

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5,0
30 ago 2016
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

My first couple months have been so satisfying. Beautiful offices, caring employees and my boss might just break into the top five of my lifetime. It's a very quiet office until Friday afternoon and then all bets are off. Last Friday was the annual boating excursion and it was easy to spend time with people I don't know very well because they are amazingly friendly.

Svantaggi

What's not to like? Amazing people, historic LaSalle St building, riding Metra makes more sense than the Red Line, diverse and odd food trucks for lunch, farmer's market twice a week and Kristkindlmarkt in the winter. This job is wonderful. OK, I'll dig deep....they don't let me use color ink in my printer.

2,0
13 mar 2013
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Has great people and some beneficial training programs. The company also is located in major city zones which is attractive for young talent and experience professionals alike.

Svantaggi

GaiaTech goes not have a "toxic" group of people as a previous reviewer indicated. It's hard to accept the notion that all the people leaving during my time were the "C" performers. Some of my better colleagues left for some of the other reasons described below. The real issue is that the company has not recognized it's young talent and does not put the same level of stock in employees regardless of level or experience. There is a widening gap between senior consultants and junior staff. Upper management knows in order to maintain current progress senior level folk are essential and it has created a revolving door as younger staffare replaceable. This practice however, is not sustainable. The idea that GaiaTech retains "C" level employees is a disgrace to the company. There are those that seem to dip their heads into the sand and fail to recognize the poor strategies and management practices in place.

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