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Falling Down the Mountain - Anonymous employee 7Summits Employee Review

2.0
Aug 31, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-The work is challenging but educational. You will be exposed to a lot of ideas and learn a lot on this job. -There are still some very talented and friendly people in the office. -Work/life balance is better than at most agencies. -Pay is quite good. -Downtown location is fun.

Cons

-Most people are spread out across far too many projects and the projects vary too much to become experts. -Turnover has been extreme. Too many senior people left, and too many new employees leave within a year. -Days are spent answering frankly stupid questions and attending pointless meetings, and real work has to happen after hours. -Few projects are set up for success - inadequate budget, impossible timeline, no client accountability. -Benefits are adequate but have great room for improvement. -Cold, mostly empty, almost completely undecorated office space.

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7Summits Response
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Thank you for posting your feedback here regarding concerns over project pressures and recent turn-over at 7Summits. And I appreciate the balanced feedback. Thank you. Yes, 7Summits has predominantly been a fee-for-service company. That model means that our teams will be asked to work on multiple efforts concurrently depending on the size and nature of the work in front of us. Fortunately as we have pivoted our business toward larger growth channel partners like Salesforce, our clients, projects and work is getting larger (and more complex). That will, over time, provide opportunities for our team to be focused in a more dedicated fashion. In terms of hyper-growth, that refers to the notion of extending our offering set with managed services and also productiz-ing what we do so that we can create some recurring revenue opportunities while better serving our client (proven solutions, etc). That means stronger growth without taxing our teams as much. I trust this makes sense. Hyper-growth in a pure project environment is just hyperbole – I don’t see that as a relevant model at all – so you’re right there. In terms of turn-over, I have addressed that on some other posts here. We are molding our company to fit the market in front of us. It’s not a financial health question as much as supply and demand, getting our offering-set right, and communicating that more clearly – an area noted across the board that we could do a better job on. And so we will.

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5.0
Apr 28, 2022
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Pros

There are few companies that have reached the pinnacle of 7Summits. This company was built to be amazing right from the start. From culture to employee derived core values. From amazing leaders to the smartest people that I have ever worked with. From processes, to client and employee focus, to the most amazing in-person and online esprit-de-corps anywhere…ever. So pleased to be a part of it all.

Cons

Some say “all good things must come to an end” and I’ve read a few reviews anticipating the demise of 7Summits having been acquired by IBM. I don’t believe this is true. Paul and our leadership team infused incredible staying power into our go-to-market, offering set, lightning product suite, project methodology, and our incredible talent. The only “con” would be if IBM doesn’t fully take advantage of it all. IBMs current methods, IP assets, and selling approach are fraught with challenges and lack a certain cohesiveness that we’ve all enjoyed at 7Summits. I suspect that is why they needed us so much.

2.0
Dec 7, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Core delivery team members, cool solutions to work on, client industries

Cons

-influx of consultants from larger companies; seems like we are losing some of "us" - but maybe that's the way things go as a company grows -continued lack of attention and detail to what we sell and what we deliver. The unfortunate part about it is employee burnout, yes - but client satisfaction also. Delivery teams lately seem to have to give an arm and a leg each time we need to deliver a project - expectation management, both internally and with clients, is horrible. -some strange decisions on how we sell, how we staff, etc. Time will tell. -losing some exceptionally great long-term talent; it hurts, a lot. Some for better opportunities, maybe others for better work life balance, and some for better company culture -only two metrics seem to matter: revenue and utilization target. I suppose at the end of the day, that's what things come down to. But I would go out on a limb to say client satisfaction and employee happiness are the two pieces that actually contribute to revenue and utilization - but there seems to be limited focus on those.

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