No Clue About being an MSP - Senior Systems Administrator GXA Employee Review

1.0
Jun 21, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not many pros. Most of the people were nice and friendly. Pay is decent.

Cons

They run as a MSP but have no clue on how to be a MSP. I do not think they know how to spell ITIL much less put it in practice. The following is just a few things. The tiered structure was not good at all. Tier 1 guys were not strong enough to really do a lot of things but took the most calls. Tier 2 guys seemed to never get any of the tickets. Tier 3 guys did most of the work and long hours. There was no Change Management. The customers they brought in they had no clue how to onboard. They did not look at basic things like AD structure, DNS, GPOs, and basic functions. There is no network team at all. Even during the interview process I told them that I was an advanced Windows engineer not network admin. They said that was fine and it was very light. First three tasks I did was configuring Cisco Routers, WAFs, and switches. This was a huge bait and switch. They were more worried about ticket times, long hours and overtime than anything else. Some of the customers I dealt with were running on illegal software and practices. We seemed not to care if they were. This is a MSP that will not get very far and will never get out of small environments like churches and daycares.

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GXA Response
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Thank you for your feedback. Sorry that your experience at GXA was not positive. Creating a great work community has always been our goal and intent. Whilst an apology won’t change the negative experience you went through at GXA, I extend it with all sincerity. Our company has made significant strides since your tenure. We have redesigned our delivery model into an ITIL based framework. We have implemented IT industry standards, policies and best practices including change control, incident response, onboarding processes and other ISO quality standards. As we have grown, our processes matured and built a better team, the concerns you brought up on this review have been addressed. In addition, this has allowed us to scale with less pain. I wish you success and the very best in your endeavors.

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Exposure to a variety of clients, technologies, and business environments. Many talented individuals at different stages of their careers throughout the organization who genuinely wanted to improve things.

Cons

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