Long View Systems Reviews

Pros

Managements flexibility with working remotely. Opportunity to identify how and where to grow career in all sectors of the company by way of the quarterly Career Life Planning sessions. Caring and engaged People Services department. Impressive community outreach and volunteer/fundraising events. Diverse work culture. Great work collaboration internally.

Cons

I personally don't have any complaints after 3 years full time.

Advice to Management

Keep it up!

Pros

job opportunities at entry level full time employment available

Cons

pay poor opportunities hard to move up need to be aggressive/assertive

Advice to Management

offer fair compensation for work

Pros

Great benefits, a people services department which is truly engaged and represents the company value system. I liked working with my immediate peer.

Cons

Marketing is treated as a service desk for fixing powerpoints, creating one page PDFs, and organizing event registrations rather than as a strategic asset. The organization (at least from my lens) felt top heavy on management - where efficiency improvements often meant adding more managers to review my work rather than people helping with the actual workload. Occasionally it would take months to approve something because...

Advice to Management

Less strategy and more doing. If a typical work day for a middle manager consists of 8 hours of meetings- something's probably not right.

Pros

Great company that cares about their employees, even the gym is included, the sky's the limit, and also people help each other’s so you won't feel alone. Honesty, things are discussed in a responsible manner which is a big plus.

Cons

I don't know if it is a con or not, but this is a big organisation so you don't meet with your supervisors quite often on one to one, there are virtual alternatives (IM, phone, Visio conferences), and they are quite responsive, your mail or call is answered.

Advice to Management

Keep it up, you're doing great.

Pros

Company Christmas party Other colleagues are great to work with

Cons

Work/life balance is basically non-existent even though leadership attempts to preach it. They talk about getting free training every quarter, but either you don't have time for it because of your crappy work-life balance, or it never gets approved - even though it is marked as an expense to calculate your bonus. Inconsistent messaging around incentives and how they are figured out. Some support teams are well off...

Advice to Management

Everything in the cons needs to be addressed before you lose more people. People leave Long View for every single one of these reasons above. As a seasoned LVSer, I left for all of these reasons.

Pros

- The leadership team at my site are doing the absolute best they can after being saddled with a terrible contract they had no part in negotiating or signing. - I can speak to the team that I work with at my site and say that they are a wonderful group of people who try the best they can in difficult circumstances. - The Christmas part is pretty decent.

Cons

- The company doesn't hire based off experience nor tell you what to expect from the site you are being sent to. It feels like working for a temp staffing agency, except they say it's a place where you can build a career, which is not true. - There is a complete disconnect from head office staff and us "billable assets" out at client sites. They don't attempt to make us feel part of the company and they just want you...

Advice to Management

- Treat your billable staff like human beings and not just resources to be shipped out to some site to never be seen again. - Pay at least close to competitive salaries. - Don't sign contracts that don't make money.

Pros

Flexible workplace, work from home. The work is interesting.

Cons

It's flexible because there isn't any meaningful organization. Nice people, or nice to your face? Revolving door for staff, people are here until they get paid more somewhere else.

Pros

Always willing to listen to concerns and or ideas

Cons

Feedback could be more often and specific

Advice to Management

Give team leads more time to tackle leadership