Surprising work environment in Kirkland - Recensione dipendente - Systems Support Specialist presso Network Architects

1,0
19 feb 2020
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

• Clients are genuinely nice to work with and understanding. • Many of the employees have a great understanding of their respected fields and are very helpful. • Occasional free lunches and free snacks • Further learning for IT careers. NA has systems in place for employees to continue their IT education with Certifications. A great incentive to continue your education well past formal schooling. • New client signup bonus. This is a rare occurrence but if happens it is very nice. • The paycheck • Free parking*

Svantaggi

• Blatant favoritism. If something is done wrong by one employee, it could get them in trouble. However, if that same thing is done by another employee, they may get a slap on the wrist. If you are not liked, expect to be the fall man. • Bigoted and inappropriate topics discussed openly with employees. I sat in many meetings where the CEO acted inappropriately and spoke about topics that should otherwise be left out of the workplace. Topics in these meetings vary from harmless football discussion to racist, sexist, or anti-LGBT discussion. Many of these topics should NEVER be talked about in a workplace. Especially by the CEO to his employees. • Stressful Work Environment. If the CEO is having a bad day, you will likely have a bad day as well. If he is having a good day, your day may be filled with laughs, constant distractions, and a free hotdog lunch. The good days are okay, and the bad days are very bad. • CEO Pet peeves. The CEO has many pet peeves that are “unofficial rules” at the company. These range from simple small things to things that will affect your day to day work. • Glassdoor reviews. The CFO and CEO scan Glassdoor for bad reviews from previous employees and respond to them. Once these reviews come in, that pervious employee’s perception changes quickly internally. An employee who leaves could have been “a stand-up guy” one day. But the day they put in a bad review, they were “lazy” or “never a good worker”. At my time at NA I never openly spoke about how I felt about this, but this always seemed unprofessional to me. • Little to No overtime compensation. Expect no OT pay or Comp. Time for working jobs after 5pm. When I questioned about Comp. Time or OT pay, I was told there were no official rules on OT or comp time. Expect to be a “team player” and work longer hours for no compensation whatsoever. • Strict arrival. Arrival time is 8am, however there is an unspoken rule to arrive at least 15 minutes early. If you come in any second later than 7:45am you are late. I am not exaggerating when I say, a second later than 7:45am and you are late. Depending on the day, the CEO may even be waiting by the front door for you and will comment about your late arrival. • Strict departure. If you leave a minute early at 4:59pm you are deemed a slacker and should expect to get spoken to about your tardiness. Even though the unofficial start time is 7:45am you are expected to leave no later than 5pm every day regardless of what time you came in the morning. Do not expect your schedule to be altered in any way to reflect the 7:45 start time. Be wary of testing this as well. The CEO might be hiding in the parking lot waiting for you to leave early. • No remote options. The type of work done here begs to be done remotely with all the tools given to the employees. Unless you are a favorite, do not expect to have the opportunity to work remotely. • Parking. There are parking spots reserved for NA employees, however if you take any of these spots in the morning, expect to be spoken to about it by the CFO or the CEO. You are ONLY allowed to park in one of these spots IF you have checked the rest of the lot for a free parking space. This rule applies to everyone except the CEO. • No positive reinforcement from management. You will be berated for small mistakes and will never be rewarded for going above and beyond. Expect a big red mark on your employee record for every mistake and not even a pat on the back for doing something well. • Micromanagement. Do not expect any mistake to go unnoticed here. If you are a salary employee, don’t expect to have the freedom that comes with it. Your time is recorded in tickets the second you step into the front door to the moment you leave. Every ticket will be picked apart for quality. If there is a gap in your ticket time, expect to be spoken to about it. • Sink or Swim Training. The training can be a hit or a miss depending on the workload of the other employees who need to train new employees. If things are slow, expect a thorough training. If things are busy, expect to have a day at most to learn everything, then get thrown into the ticket que. • “Game day.” In my time at NA, game day was a day where we were supposed to relax and do fun things like games. This day never came and as such will remain on the cons list.

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Risposta di Network Architects
6y
In response to this writeup lets refer to this employee as simply M. I need to start out by informing you that this employee is no longer with our company, there is a reason they are not with our company as if they were worth keeping we certainly would have. This employee had a resume stating their IT skills were strong when in reality they are not, in addition the employee actively markets themselves as an engineer without having any experience or education in this area. The reality here is that this employee said they could do the job when in reality they truly are a beginner trying to do a job for which they did not have the skills needed. As to the rest of their issues I will elaborate on that so readers may understand the other side. The first comment of favoritism or a bias towards or against any group of people is just wrong! Network Architects actively employees people of all color, race, religion, and sexual orientation. It is our feeling that since this employee came from an area that did not embrace this acceptance that is the root cause of their complaints. We also do not censor ones freedom of speech so if you have something to say or discuss openly we encourage that, rather than make an employee keep anything positive or negative inside. Network Architects does operate on a support schedule which is explained in the employee manual, interview process, and before an employee ever accepts a position with us. Its no secret we hit the ground running at 8am for our clients, we do ask employees to be prepared for the day by 7:45am not sure why this is an issue of asking employees to be ready to work, that is why we are all here:) If an employee is late of course that is an issue, our clients need our support so if you were not planning on working please refrain from applying. All employees here are salary, I dont think this employee understands what exactly that means as we dont have overtime...we are all salary. Again this just goes to show the lack of professional experience in the work place to understand working in a corporate environment. Our employees do not work remotely as often we are required to visit a client site, or if an emergency should occur we need the flexibility to go onsite quickly. Again this employee lacked the understanding of what it is we do on the most rudimentary level so their understanding of how support and IT operations are done was simply incorrect. This employee struggled to show up on time for our morning meetings where we discuss this and how we support clients in a variety of ways. If the employee wanted to work and showed up on time, lots of attendance issues here, then they would have had better results in their career here. We also need to trust that an employee can do the job before ever considering remote work, if this employee cant even understand being on time and being prepared, along with having a solid set of IT skills it would be different. We provide free parking for all employees, not sure what the complaint is here. We do have guest spots for visitors so employees can use either, pretty simple to understand except for this employee. This employee M. had a very minor set of IT skills so they were routinely confused as to resolving basic troubleshooting, thus this reflected on the type of management that was needed. They have taken our additional steps of teaching and guiding and turned it into some sort of negative micromanagement. This again goes back to their lack of education and skills being the root issue. My favorite comment is 'game day', we occasionally have a game day where we do team building games in the office. This employee was here such a short period of time they did not get to partake in that. We enjoy an employees right to voice their concerns, its too bad that this employee neglected to do any of those steps during their short term with us. The sad reality is that this platform allows a poor employee a voice to post negative comments about an employer rather than sharing the truth and reality. This employee simply did not have the skills to remain employed here, misrepresented themselves on paper and to this day publicly. My advice to them would be to take some time to self reflect on understanding what it means to work in a corporate environment, understanding punctuality, understanding how to work with diverse people, and lastly work on your IT skills as they are a much needed area of improvement.

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5,0
20 gen 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Owner and Director fully support their employees diversifying their experience and knowledge by providing training and tools necessary and relevant. If you are a ‘go-getter’ type of mentality, you will thrive here…the sky is the limit.

Svantaggi

Required time start is 7:45am every morning for meeting but it’s nice that all the teams feel the positive impact of communication. 90 day wait period before benefits kick in.

1,0
8 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Being that it was a small company, you got to know everyone. Decent pay.

Svantaggi

-Unprofessional work culture -Lack of opportunity or growth -Extremely high turnover causing constant uncertainty -Poor communication among management -Benefits are lack luster -Poor leadership -Constant political conversations and arguments that you are forced to listen to every morning.

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