Take the Good.. Take the Bad...Take Them Both & There You Have...A JOB - Anonymous employee Scitent Employee Review

4.0
May 23, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits Flex Schedule Stocked Kitchen Mac Laptop Provided Quarterly Events for Families and Employees Community Focused Great Co-Workers

Cons

Management Top-Heavy Communication and Trust is still a W.I.P @ the management level A division between the vision of management and the labor of direct reports

Scitent Response
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We’re encouraged to see your positive feedback regarding our benefits, flexibility, events, and our culture of community. We, too, love our co-workers, and we work really hard to make Scitent a great place to work for everyone. Finding the right balance of management is tricky, especially for growing companies. It is important to be ready for growth when it happens, and we are trying to find the right balance without being caught on our heels. That said, there is an expectation that managers get in the trenches, too. We are watching and listening to make sure that ‘management’ serves to support our team members and be strong communicators for the vision of the company. We are emphasizing the significance of building domain expertise in our culture by developing non-management promotion paths for subject matter experts so our employees will have opportunities for advancement and growth without necessarily having to take on management responsibilities. We encourage our employees to become fantastic at their jobs and we seek opportunities to reward their depth and excellence. We also acknowledge that transparency and alignment of vision, goals, and strategies can always be improved upon and that our success in the future depends on it. To that end, we have implemented a product management system that allows us to easily map every effort up to the strategic plan of the company. This tool allows anybody in the company to see what activities are going on and trace them up to our strategy. Also, in our last company meeting, the management shared a great deal of information about the business and management decisions with the team. Follow-up surveys about this meeting showed that more than 90% of employees felt the management was more transparent than in the past. We are constantly tweaking our business model and go to market strategy to reflect the changes in the business environment; we agree that making our team aware of these changes is very important. Thanks again for your feedback, it really does make Scitent a better place to work. If you would like the opportunity to speak further with our CEO to address these concerns, please send us an email at HR@scitent.com, and she will reach out to you directly.

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Cons

Prioritization is always challenging for any organization. With that said, Scitent is aware and making positive intentional steps towards this. Along the lines of prioritization, I would like to see Scitent make sure that they schedule company wide initiatives along with the everyday work. I believe that leveraging the internal workforce to not only deliver solution for customers, but to also work on internal processes and improvements builds a strong culture, instills trust and breeds an engaged workforce.

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