Tough to find a better company! - Software Engineer/Systems Engineer BTI360 Employee Review

I don't usually write reviews, but when I saw a negative one on here, I felt I had to chime in. You would be hard pressed to find a better company than BTI360. The benefits are great, the work life balance is great, the outside of work activities are great. As far as tech companies go though, that isn't actually that extraordinary. What sets BTI360 apart are all the other "benefits". Words are very easy for a company to throw around, but BTI360 adds actions to the words. Here are a few examples: * "We care about our employees" - I was working at BTI360 during the government shutdown a few years ago (contractors were also furloughed along with gov employees). Most of my friends were forced to blow through their vacation balances. Some were forced to take leave without pay (LWOP) because their companies couldn't afford everyone to take vacation at the same time. BTI told everyone to show up to the corporate headquarters for a series of tech-talks, and kept people on overhead for the duration of the shutdown. * "We are family friendly". At BTI360, not only do they offer a fully funded health benefit, but I think the CEO knows the names of just about every one of the teammate's spouses and children (if applicable). He and his wife also have dinner with prospective teammates before giving out an offer, just to get to know them. * "We give back to our community" - Ok lots of companies do Habitat for Humanity, and food drives, and give charitable donations. BTI360 does all of those things. They also sponsor children in third-world countries, and installed a water treatment facility in an impoverished community that didn't have clean water, drastically reducing the rate of dysentery and the cost of clean water for those people. I don't know many other small companies that give back like that. * BTI used to have a slogan on the wall at HQ that said "Most companies use their people to build their business, we use our business to build our people". That is absolutely taken to heart. I saw on numerous occasions BTI used corporate relationships to get people into more (personally) desirable/fulfilling positions, and used overhead funding/training and technical mentoring to help that person be successful in their desired position. * "We are a forward leaning tech company" - I truly believe BTI360 is forward leaning. The teammates are top notch technically, and the company does a lot to encourage people to expand their technical breadth and depth, and share what they have learned with the rest of the team. A couple examples of this are company sponsored (read: pay for your time) "code retreats", tech talks/technology exchanges, encouraging attendance (and in some cases sponsoring) of tech conferences, etc. * "We have a flat management structure" The leadership team is always available to chat/hangout or get together for lunch/etc. The CEO is busy, but he always makes time for people. Your concerns are always heard by the leadership team, and they are always looking for feedback. * "We have a great culture" - the CEO has said on multiple occasions that he views his primary job as preserving the company culture, and it shows. I don't want to go tit-for-tat with the negative review (hopefully you get the idea from my review that BTI360 is a GREAT place to work), but I did want to address one in particular. The comment that there is some sort of exclusive leadership inner circle, is really unfounded. I have rarely seen any company that does more to encourage their employees/teammates into leadership roles than BTI360. Regardless of personality type, or experience level. They encourage people take leadership roles in whatever the person's forte is, whether that be technical, community outreach, corporate, outside-work activities, etc. I've said a lot, but I could go on and on. BTI360 is really a terrific company, and I couldn't recommend it more.