ComFrame Reviews

If you have a family. Forget it. Your projects are always expected to come first. You have to bill an insane percentage of time directly (100%) so any company meetings, "fun" company events, etc...are coming directly out of your free time. Don't believe the "feel good" "we are a family" talk from the senior management. Comframe is a typical "body shop" style software consulting firm. They don't really care about the best interests of their clients and will require you to tell bald faced lies to the people who are (in reality) paying your salary. They operate in a manner of many off-shore software dev shops...1. Present the "A-list" team to the client to win the business and secure a contract. 2. Keep those bodies on for a month or two to start, then 3. Start switching them out with B, C and D list people. The whole time, they keep 1 A-lister dev on the project soley as "the face". In reality, that person has no control over what is going on, overseeing the team, or anything. They are just there to "keep continuity". Its too much of a scam.

All of the things that made ComFrame a great place to work all but vanished in the run up to the "great recession". The company's hiring practices and overall strategy had little or no apparent discipline. As a result, many costly initiatives, both personnel and project-based (poorly managed product development initiatives, thin-veneer frameworks that were really just "thud" and "vapor" ware), did not pay off. A litany of upper management changes, revolving doors, and recycling of talent created a directionless environment full of fiefdoms. Positions were created and titles distributed, stupid acronyms, buzz words, and false starts in just about every imaginable technical direction abounded. The culture shifted from one of technical innovation based on high margin quality delivery engagements to cash-strapped technical trick turning. Given an environment in which their projects would be sold at cut rates to impossible deadlines in order to simply keep the company afloat, the organization's talent began to seek alternatives. The vacuum of qualified delivery personnel had the effect of creating dissatisfied clients which in turn has led to even more financial difficulties for the organization.