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Bait and Switch - NOC Technician Alchemy Communications Employee Review

1.0
Sep 20, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Some of my peers were great people that I am happy to have met.

Cons

This is a bait and switch job. You will be hired as a NOC Technician and underpaid for it, but will ACTUALLY be working as outsourced labor for their sister hosting company, Cloudtrek. Does being paid $30,000 to be a Windows Admin sound acceptable? Advice to the fresh graduates they'll trick into working here -- 2 years, MAX. They will never pay you what you're worth. Get your resume built up and bounce. This is where talent goes to die. I worked there for 2.5+ years and had no performance reviews or raise, despite repeated requests. They just keep you around until you realize there's no carrot attached to the stick. Exceptionally toxic environment where teamwork is actively discouraged and looked upon with disdain from technical managers. They used the term "self-starter" because they have no training program. No paid holidays. Middle Management is young and inexperienced; they use staff to sort out their policy guesswork with whiplash-inducing policy changes that are based on being personally offended by employee feedback. Their hire method is to target inexperienced college grads that won't know they're underpaid and overworked. Managers verbally abuse employees, both to directly and to peers, without a sense of irony that every complaint they have is due to the hiring process, and the culture they promote. They originally had a decent COVID-19 response, until it began eating into Cloudtrek's outsourced staff, so they removed COVID policies, endangering staff because they wouldn't hire their own.

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5.0
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Pros

Cares about it's customers to the point of no return

Cons

Needs More Project Managers to help customers

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1.0
Feb 21, 2014
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Recommend
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Pros

If you work hard and learn on the job, this is a decent place for entry level IT personnel to build up a resume.

Cons

This company cuts corners at any opportunity, from workplace safety to the services it provides to customers. Alchemy consistently hires employees with little to no experience and pays them accordingly, providing virtually zero training. Self-starters will take it in stride and build their skill sets before moving on to better paying jobs; the less capable eventually get fired or are kept on as scapegoats or informants. In addition to the lack of on the job training, the company provides a dearth of office supplies and other necessities, often obliging its employees to expense these items and delaying their reimbursement indefinitely. If hired here, plan to use the experience solely as a career springboard and do not stay longer than a year.

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