Computer Task Group reviews about "pay"

Pay raises are rarely given.

People were laid off out of the blue a few times a year, so it had you always waiting for the axe to drop on you, so to speak. At that, if you were laid off, you were lucky to receive a severance of more than a few weeks, max. I was there 6 years, was laid off, with 2 weeks notice and received 2 weeks of severance pay, which is one paycheck. After 6 years, I would have expected at least the graciousness of a month's pay. Also, in the 6 years I was there, I never received a performance review.

I was told that I could not renegotiate my salary Over 2.5 years and no raise The contract is ongoing which makes it tough to know when to leap Other contractors who came into the same job a little over a year later were paid considerably more for the same work Account rep can be tough to get a hold of

Contract to hire, you are capped at your bonus.

contracts end without any type of interaction from employees. If issue arrises you have no recourse, they just get rid of you. unstable job security w contracts

It's a body shop with little care for the employee if the client doesn't like you or when the job ends. Good promotions? None that I ever saw for anyone in 10 years of employment unless you worked in Buffalo HQ. The good old boy program is alive and well here. The responsibility and headache of getting an FSM "promotion" is a joke for the tiny pay that comes with it. 2nd line management is out of touch with what goes on at the local level. CTG seems to hire folks from resumes instead of doing technical interviews and using that as a basis for employment. Many times they hired folks that had no clue what to do in the assignment and barely spoke English for positions which made both CTG and their client look bad to high end customers. One time upper management told the client they were ready to take over a project that was way under staffed both person wise and technically which resulted in the site manager getting the boot from the client.

Consulting is a very risky business for something specific like a particular application. The jobs come and go and big implementations are starting to decrease so work in not as easily obtainable.

I see by the review comments of others that nothing has changed at CTG in a long time. I actually managed to last for 18 years, but that was at a different, and better, CTG than it is today. I left shortly after the current CEO started, and he's the reason I was let go. Prior CEOs cared about each employee, and yes, we were almost all actual employees, not contractors. Lots of very organized, well-run offices throughout the country (and world). Not after he started. He eliminated bench time, cut benefits and pay, and essentially turned CTG into a body shop. It's a shame, because it used to be a good company.