Very poor "leadership", company wasn't prepared for explosive competition in it's primary market. - Senior Systems Engineer Aptum Employee Review

1.0
Feb 28, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

At the bottom level you have a mix of really skilled engineers and caring customer service operatives, (but also utterly disillusioned or barely competent seat warmers who are hanging on for a severance payment). At the middle levels, you mostly have well meaning but overworked managers, who are trying to shield their overworked staff from the whimsical requests of the latest "fake-it-til-you-make-it" executive. Feeling of camraderie between the actual workers, definitely a feeling of being "in it together", sadly it's "in it together" against the upper management.

Cons

Have a look at the glassdoor for "Cogeco Peer 1", the executive team weren't happy with the 2.9 rating, so they started a new Glassdoor account at the last rebrand, then asked everyone to leave nice reviews (if you want nice reviews, try being nice). Turnover has been very high at the executive level since the incumbent CEO took over. Thus a legacy of ill-conceived and hastily deployed products which no one wants. Unfortunately the high attrition rate of senior management has also resulted in promotion of mediocre or incompetent staff. Minimum statutory holiday allowance, poor benefits offering.

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5.0
Aug 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Management cares about their employees. This is a great place to work and to grow your career as there is always an opportunity to advance.

Cons

No cons as most of the support roles are fully remote.

3.0
Apr 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Get to choose any number of hours of work-from-home or office - Great people to work with - Great company culture - Great resume builder

Cons

- The new CEO (from the CloudOps acquisition) did not truly understand the importance of the original Aptum side of the business as most of the layoffs occurred there in contrast to the acquired company that brought in less revenue. - Additionally, he reduced the original development team, the ones that maintained mission-critical systems, down to literally zero as those systems were just seen as mere "legacy" systems compared to the newer, unproven systems that did not actually pull their weight.

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