Border States reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(47 total reviews)

Jason Seger

67% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

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4.0
Dec 21, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Strong Employee Stock Owned company with positive yearly growth and opportunities across the US. ESOP benefits are great for long term employees.

Cons

Small company feel has been lost, but they are working to get back to that stage again. Depending on department, management may not be the most engaging.

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Thanks for your assessment – we agree, employee-ownership is a great benefit and we’ll keep working on improving through our annual engagement survey to listen to employee-owners like you and take action for positive change.
1.0
Apr 22, 2020

Run, don't walk.

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Pros

Work schedule, vacation time, ESOP

Cons

If you're used to over working while your other coworkers slack off and do nothing, then this is the place for you! Management acts like they care about employees when in fact all they care about is having employees who don't question their lack of accountability towards others. Mistakes are often made and responsibilities end up being taken up by other workers because the "leads" choose to do nothing. Favoritism at its finest and if you've served your time over a year or so, you can bet you will keep your job even though you pawn off your work to others. Try speaking to management about it and response will be lack of teamwork by you and others- no accountability. Promises are made to others about advancing in the company and it never happens.

2.0
Jan 18, 2020

Avoid at all costs

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Pros

They will pay you very well in the IT area since it's very difficult to attract talent.

Cons

Cold cold place. The work area is a form of 'open concept' but that's where the openness stops. The management and other leadership likely wont even notice who you are or care to converse with you. If you want to have any input on any matters within the company then you probably should go work for a consulting firm or technology company that they regularly 'rub elbows' with. On the technology side of things it seems as if it's a group of 'yes men' running the show. The current and future implementations are still following the IT rules from the 90's. The goal for the IT projects are to get something up and running at bare minimum costs (as if leadership's bonus rely on budget savings) while accumulating an astronomical amount of technical debt. Then leadership will sell the chance to address said debt after the project only for them to kick off the next big thing project. The IT turnover should hint to the people upstairs that there is something wrong in the area but yet the same antics still continue. The area is thin with resources so the common solution is to staff aug which of course costs much more for the resource to get up to speed and then are rarely able to properly complete their assigned project. When an intern is brought into the IT area they are directed to their seat and talked to at a bare minimum, they are likely never introduced to leadership higher than a supervisor. If you are looking for an IT company that focuses on implementing the technology then I would avoid BSE at all costs.

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