Sparta Systems Reviews

Pros

Strong focus on customer success

Cons

Going through a transition period for product and management

Pros

Good salary, Salesforce platform, good product

Cons

No salesforce products implemented.

Pros

- Great place to start a career - Work from home flexibility - Development managers can be great motivators

Cons

- Most Senior-Level developers left over the past year or two - Can be a lot of management involved in development lifecycle - Far too much time spent in agile planning/estimation meetings - Recognizing and addressing technical debt is met by much resistance - Product strategy/priorities change every couple of days to couple of weeks - Offshoring created a significant amount of technical debt; and continues to do...

Advice to Management

Look at the product you have, recognize how it got to it's current state, and see how your current planning is either positively or negatively affecting it. Talk to anyone in RnD that works with it if you need clarification.

Pros

The company has an awesome culture.

Cons

No cons at the moment.

Pros

Good people - good product - nice customers. Employees are recognised for their efforts and pay/benefits are very good. Members of the Management Team are approachable and well respected.

Cons

The UK/US time difference can sometimes be frustrating!

Advice to Management

Keep communicating with employees to help everyone understand where the company is heading.

Pros

Sparta is a great place to work if you're a motivated, independent person that likes to be part of the company's success. Depending on the department some work is in-house, remote or at a client site, but regardless you always feel part of the team and that your contribution makes a difference.

Cons

With global and remote employees you don't often get the face to face interaction more than a few times a year, but all hands meetings do bring the teams together for team bonding

Pros

Colleagues, regionally and globally. Great team ethos with extremely collaborative ethics. If you're hard working, a team player and enthusiastic, then this is the place for you. You reap what you sow and then some. The company does not fail it's employees. Especially if you can adapt, learn, constructively seek to progress, want to prove your self and believe in Sparta's values. There are plenty of opportunities...

Cons

No cons unless you're actively looking for them. Only opportunities to help make us better!

Advice to Management

One thing I can say is that Management are extremely supportive through out your career at Sparta. Their encouragement is towards helping you grow and fulfill your ambitions. Like any company, there maybe small areas that could be built on but as a Team this is what gets done best.

Pros

- Versatile product - No micro-management - Interesting projects and customers - Great balance of customer facing activities and working from home (I am aware that this assessment is subjective)

Cons

- Slow product development - management direction used to not always be transparent (applies to previous CEO)