TerpSys: A great place to work and grow - Network Engineer TerpSys Employee Review

5.0
May 19, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

TerpSys is a Washington, DC-based technology services company that specializes in providing great customer service ('Delighting Our Customers"). The staff is high caliber and the work is challenging. Customers include a variety of federal, non-profit and commercial work. TerpSys is consistently rated as a 'Great Place to Work' in regional publications - where staff surveys are the most important criteria - so TerpSys is doing something right. Company offers a wide variety of activities from company parties, social activities, 'intramural' sports, brown bag lunches and pizza nights. Overall, I would say TerpSys is a fun and fast paced place to work. Community Service is one area the company is really different than my past employers. TerpSys offers unlimited community service hours - a big plus for those who are so motivated! Lots of 'team' based challenges and free soda, too!

Cons

TerpSys is successful and many of the original team are still active in the company. That means that culture is well defined and can take a while for newcomers to understand and assimilate. On the whole, staff is rather young. That is a good thing if you are in your first 10 years out of college - but I've been working for more than 15 years. I don't have as many experienced collegues as I had in my previous company.

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5.0
Apr 14, 2021
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Pros

Family atmosphere, talented colleagues, work-life balance

Cons

Small company, lacks access to a large pool of knowledge

5.0
Jul 24, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I enjoy my job. I enjoy my coworkers. I love getting two raises a year. I really love getting an annual bonus. I love RDOs and all the vacation time. I like the Management in the Field events I've been on: Trapeze school, Kayaking the Potomac, and GoApe!. - all of which I was paid to attend I have graduated from the TerpSys Outward Bound professional course - which I was also paid to attend. I believe the interaction between management, at least between me and my manager(s), is fair. I am grateful for the TerpSys paid training and certification.

Cons

I dislike the internal website. We are encouraged to post 'Knowledge Sharing' to the corporate SharePoint "forum", but the site is bulky and counter intuitive to what an IT company website should be. Rather than initiate discussion, the 'Knowledge Sharing' section of the website comes off as a dumping ground for people who want to appear involved in the company; I include myself as one of those people. I really disliked the change to the corporate mobile policy that encrypted, and broke, my SD card, and granted TerpSys administrative credentials to my personal cell phone. This change was made when employees at the corporate office received iPhones, but the policy was not communicated to non-corporate employees. I would have appreciated an email explaining the new policy. The SD card encryption failed and I lost some personal data, and I had to factory reset my phone to remove the TerpSys administrative credentials. I no longer check TerpSys email on my phone and I have less confidence

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