Data Systems International Software Developer III reviews

DSI was at one point was a pretty good place to work. There are a bunch of intelligent people that work there that over time were beaten down. Over the last two years, the owner fired his son as CEO, and they promoted the Sales VP as the new CEO. Huge mistake unless the plan was the run the company down to the ground as fast as possible and create a culture of fear. One of the very few consistency of the company was the CTO. He genuinely cared about development and most people stayed because of him. He was fired with little explanation from anyone after 20 plus years at the company. There have been multiple rounds of layoffs. Many of my friends lost their job and were shown zero dignity. They were shown zero empathy and respect. The reasoning they gave us was cost savings. But yet they still have a suite at arrowhead, multiple apartments at a luxury apartment complex, they have an executive trainer on payroll, spent a ton of money on gym memberships and a lot of other pointless things.

The offices are pretty to look at, but that's not what offices are for. Much better to have noise-baffling cubicle walls so we can concentrate on our work. No 401K matching. Management has addressed this before, but I still feel it could be done on a graduated system, say 5% per year of service or whatever. Likewise, use-or-lose vacation days. Yes, I understand they want to make sure we take our days, but I feel it would make more sense for the company PTO hours to have an expiration date instead, so they could be more spread out, we could take long trips if we wanted, and it would also avoid the December "dead zone"--just try and get anything done the last two weeks of the year. Does extensive charity efforts, but mostly in benefit of a shelter which is notoriously anti-LGBT, so I cannot in good conscience participate in any of their activities.