Senior Management Team are very dysfunctional and basically dishonest in this organization. They will lie to you about what a great job you are doing and how important to the company your contribution is while they are hiring and training your replacement in the background (unknown to you). Happens every day there. That includes Senior Management promising you raises or bonuses for your "good" work and then later pretending like none were offered or even discussed.
Very political (not talking republican vs democrat) and very difficult to know where you stand at any given point. Senior Management team are like a bunch of hens gossiping among themselves and enjoying the drama that comes from their gossip. Employees are rewarded not for their contribution, but for putting other's contributions down. Building one's own career on someone else's back is a normal play here. Talk to and trust no one. People will befriend you and then use what you say to further their own career and your expense.
Age discrimination is rampant: if you make a decent salary and you are in your 40s or 50s, you have a target on your back here. I'll never forget HR telling me I could not hire a 50 yo job candidate because "they were too old". Youth and low wages are all that matter here (because they can exploit them). But if you are young, you may have a job, don't expect much in the way of salary increases or bonuses or a pleasant morale.
Management totally discounts its workers and thinks that everyone is easily replaceable. Maybe that is because Senior Management come from an accounting background where everyone one is just a number on a income statement. Maybe that is because they are from Huntsville....... where the mentality is we are just lucky to have a job... and they think the world's labor market is just like Huntsville. The term "Human Resources" is an oxymoron there. But that thinking is very "old school" and not progressive at all. I am glad the newer millennial are slowly showing this old school management team that they are wrong.....but old habits die hard with these old dogs (the Management Team). And speaking of old school, no work from home policy. They believe everyone needs to punch the clock and chain themselves to a desk for 8 or more hours. Think the scene from "Nine to Five" where all of the admins are sitting at their typewriters and working away in a room with 50 others. Management is resistant to right size workload so you are guaranteed to be doing 2 or 3 persons jobs. Sound good?
Sex and Race discrimination are rampant: Women are only promoted in rare circumstances under the current leadership. Over the last few years, the President has pushed down or out of the company many, many good qualified women leaders and vice presidents. In discussions, the President expressed his preferences are for good old boys that can play golf with him and drink beer in off time with him.....not qualified women. The same thing is happening with minorities. White middle aged former fraternity guys are who get the positions of privilege and are valued.
HR management have no backbone (or ethics) to stand up to any of the discriminatory behavior going on......promoting their own careers by being "yes" men instead of standing up for what is right. Violations of HR policy and law regularly go unreported (for fear of retribution), unanswered or just ignored.
The President of SI and the next level of management working under him are the root cause of all of the dysfunction in my opinion. They are not qualified to run any organization. Ethics and ethical behavior are four letter words. Not sure how they are hanging on to their jobs given the continual loss of traditional long term clients......particularly in the public safety business (but utilities and transportation are in as bad or worse conditions). In 2006, public safety had never lost a client......now its a daily occurrence. In 2006, public safety was working at any given time negotiation of 4-5 new marque clients a quarter. Now they are lucky to have a few a year. The business continues to trickle off and the technology is not keeping pace with the market........but for some reason they are hanging on. In my opinion, much of that is because a lack of vision, a lack of leadership and instability within the organization.
I have worked many places in my career and I can say that Hexagon SI was the absolute worst experience I have had. Happy to move on to a real company that values its employees.
