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Falling Fast - Anonymous employee Compliance Implementation Services Employee Review

2.0
Feb 29, 2016
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Pros

There are benefits and you get paid. It's a job.

Cons

Imagine you’re a construction worker and have been for a few years now. You’re working for a company that has built multiple small buildings that have been extremely successful and made your clients very happy. Your company gets new management (new to you and to the building industry) and decides they want to build one very big building right away and you have 6 months. They give you a week to research whether you should use nails, screws, staples, glue, tape, etc. In the past you’ve always been successful with nails and a hammer, but will research the difference for this bigger scale. Then the newest guy on your teams says, with no other research, that his past company always used screws and it worked out really well. Management is sold and they have you use screws. Then another newer guy says, well we’ve always used hammers - so once again, management, knowing nothing about building, says go with it. When you try to say “hey, you can’t use a hammer and a screw, that’s not right…” management says “lets see how it goes we can always change it”. The first guy, not wanting to admit his screws aren’t good, just starts hacking away at the screw with the hammer until it jams itself into a piece of wood, while the rest of the competent employees sit back saying this isn’t how construction works. Three months pass and you have some pieces of wood put together, the new guys are the only ones management likes because they're the only ones with a seemingly positive outlook on all of this, but there is absolutely no foundation. However there is a REALLY good looking blueprint. All the construction workers know its a mess, but management says you’re in too far to make changes, so you have to keep going with the tools they decided on. Because they have nothing to show the client, they just keep showing the blueprint - and as you have designers keep trucking away at that blueprint, it looks better and better every time. The building has yet to be shown off - management doesn’t seem to be addressing the failures. When it’s time to move in, it’s going to crumble - that's if, when the client sees it, they even want to risk stepping in the front door.

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Pros

I really enjoyed working at CIS. I was hooked up with the job from a family job, but the analyst position challenged me to use my analytical skills.

Cons

Lack of organizational structure and the supervisors have way more important things going on then the interns. Also, I sometimes felt less superior to my supervisor who constantly babied me.

5.0
May 19, 2014
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Pros

Working at CIS in the software group has been an excellent experience. There are many applications to work on, each with its own unique challenges, and there are always new projects on the horizon. The small team atmosphere is very collaborative, and the personalities of the group mesh well. I would highly recommend a position here, especially if you are just out of school and seeking a strong foundation in many skills. There are no specialists in the group, and because of that, you will gain experience across the spectrum of web application development. The software management is very reasonable, and work/life balance is great -- crunch times are rare. The company is definitely growing, and seems to be breaking into ever larger contracts, meaning opportunities for growth should exist, both in terms of career and in technical challenges.

Cons

Don't expect to be spoon-fed what to do. A large part of success in the software group is acting autonomously and working with business users directly. This can be both rewarding and at times frustrating. The business domain is also fairly conservative (meaning "controls" and "processes" are part of the picture in software management), although I imagine this can be much worse in other industries.

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