Pros
TransWorks offers good pay for the Fort Wayne area. Most of the people are good. Office location is convenient. Benefits package is decent. The biggest Nazi on the executive staff was offloaded onto a sister company a few years ago.
Cons
What do you get when you have several non-technical, ex-railroad employees running a software company? You get TransWorks. If micromanagement from the exec staff with a dash of 1950s-style authoritarian leadership is your thing, TransWorks is the place for you. Employees are asked to log their hours in no greater than 15-minute increments for the entire week. I can promise you will NEVER find a company that pays stricter attention to how employees spend every minute of every day than this one. Every single project no matter how small must be estimated and go through executive review before it can be worked on. This is a company that can't get out of its own way. Management is skeptical and distrusting of employees. When things are going well all is fine but if customers leave and times get tough you can be sure management will find a group of minions to blame it on and make their life miserable. A couple of the most well liked and respected management people left a few years ago. They played nicey-nice on their way out the door but people who knew them well said they were miserable and it was a long time coming. A previous reviewer said it best - if you are a yes man/woman, you'll be ok here. There is proof of that. If you see the flaws and try to correct anything you'll either be made miserable enough that you'll quit or they'll start an HR witch hunt so they can fire you. Or you'll be DEmoted. That's happened. Be sure to log those hours!!!!!
