It was great at first... - IT Department Spark Networks Employee Review

2.0
Jun 11, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The IT department was great..... Also the software dev team and our Utah counterparts... We always did what we could with the limited tools and technology that we had.... But thats just it... LIMITED.. I mean cmon.. If you call yourself a technology company but cant afford to buy some new firewalls, switches or servers then theres a big problem... While spending all that time cutting corners and finding out how to save cost.. The manpower and wages that it took to figure that out could have paid for a new infrastructure... Geta clue "C" levels. At least the old upper management team you could go with and explain why the stuff was needed.

Cons

Total disconnect with the worker bees and even supervisors up to the CEO. CEO said he cared when he came in but after spending a few months with the new regime it was so obvious that we were catering to a bunch of dufus investors who only care about getting their original investment back and not to grow or even make the company great. And in reaponse to ppl stating that certain parties like HR are unreachable...cmon... Try juggling 100+ employees across 3 different sites in 3 different regions with just 1 hr person when in the beginning we actually had a real HR department and the CEO would actually sit down and have group lunch discussions with employees who were interested in whats going on at the company. Nope... New CEO has his team of minions who are at the most.... Semi intelligent

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