CemSites reviews

3.1

51% would recommend to a friend

(22 total reviews)

Scott McAfee

52% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

CemSites has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 22 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CemSites employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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22 reviews
1.0
Jun 28, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people there were great to work with.

Cons

Management that thoroughly doesn't understand software and are unwilling to learn. You are asked to do your development on 2015 macbooks, because management views new machines as an unnecessary expense. Recently they locked all but one bathroom to be shared between 10 male employees because the owner didn't want to smell people using the one near his office. There is no training at all in the organization. You just get thrown in and asked to do things well above your job description. There is no seniority in the company at all, most people do not make it more than a year causing huge turbulence due to not having a standardized way of training the constant flow of new employees. There is no room for growth or career advancement. Overall one of the least organized and poorly ran organizations I ever had the misfortune of working for.

2.0
Feb 2, 2022

Glorified call center

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

great co workers helped the day go faster

Cons

Work 60+ hours with cold calling, get paid for 40 -- brag about being a Veteran based company - it's a stretch - but if you want off for Memorial Day, you don't get paid - unless you take a vacation day. No paid holidays, must use your 10 vacation days for holidays -

1.0
Aug 1, 2019

Terrible work space and working environment.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

My coworkers were great and as supportive of one another as much as you can be in this place. I'm surprised some have stayed, though I understand why, and I wish them all the best in the world.

Cons

Both owners are awful. They constantly make rude and disparaging remarks to and about staff under the guise of "joking." But at least you are forced to pray before a pizza party. The hypocrisy knows no bounds. When not insulting the staff, they show up late and leave early, all while forcing staff to work overtime (60+ hours a week) to make a normal 40 hour a week income and it's still way below what you'd make as a junior developer. Forget having a work/life balance as the owners expect you to work all the time, no work-from-home options because the owners don't trust you to be a professional and actually work from home. Expect huge pushes to work on billable time and meet sales goals (not client goals) that are unobtainable, irresponsible, and detrimental to the development team's overall quality of work which is then passed on to the clients, who will complain to ownership, and ownership then comes down on you like a ton of bricks because you met their sales goals but the client is mad because they didn't get exactly what they paid for. It's a never ending cycle. If you're a developer, do not bother applying here–you will set your career back years and losing out on having any sort of work/life balance. New ideas that help the company and coworkers be more efficient are not encouraged and are typically ridiculed and shot down for fear that the company would lose money. The building itself is bad, as well. You work in a back room that leaks constantly and has birds nesting in the ceiling. You're packed into this small room with five other developers and implementation specialists, so good luck with trying to have a phone conversation with clients. The only bathroom you are permitted to use is one that is barely a step up from a porta potty and step down from a shady gas station at one in the morning, while the sales and marketing team have their own dedicated bathroom and, of course, the owners have their own personal bathroom.

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CemSites Response
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Our industry is very competitive and it takes a lot of hard work to succeed. We are continually trying to improve and refine our company culture and work-life balance. As a small company, we do our best to be transparent with all our employees about workload expectations. We hope employees would express their feelings to us when they are feeling stressed, overworked or burned out. If you don’t tell us, we don’t know what is going on with you personally.
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