DataPath reviews about "layoff"

Less than average benefits for cost. Inconsistent management. Conflicts of interest between some workers and management.

This company has consistently lost money and contracts throughout it's history. Between 2003 - 2007 it was an independent company that got lucky on a few large contracts. Due to rampant mismanagement the company was in debt $120 million when they were purchased by Rockwell Collins. After Rockwell Collins purchased them they were restructured but continued to lose all of their prime contracts. They've had to cut their employees base pay several times meaning employees that had been with the company for years were making less than when they started causing a 70% turnover in employment. Eventually Rockwell sold Datapath at a $100 million loss plus more layoffs. The company has a complete lack of qualified leadership. Managers are part of the good old boys club and diversity is more important than quality. The people being promoted are the ones that have stuck around for years because they can't get jobs at other companies .Their security office in particular is completely incompetent and has cost several employees their clearances and jobs due to paperwork not being submitted on time or completely. The benefits are horrible!!! The 401K only vests after 4 years when most employees stay for 1 - 2. They have very few positions in the continental United States so most employees spend their time in the Middle East working brutal hours in austere conditions for minimal pay. There is no room for promotion. Employee's are given the title of Engineer to earn more contracts without actually having degrees or qualifications for those contracts. An employee successfully sued Datapath Inc. for overtime wages that were not paid while on contract in Kuwait. The employees were working 60 and 84 hours a week but only getting paid for 40. The payroll department is not to be trusted so account for every penny you are owed.

Frequent layoffs due to financial issues.

Split from Rockwell Collins in in 2013 and has conducted 4 mass layoffs due to reduction in clients/customers and failure to procure new contracts. Senior management is not procuring new revenue sources.

They have serious cash flow problems. Vendors who supply us the parts to build our products are not getting paid, so we get parts late because we can't pay for them. We barely get the equipment out, let alone meet our delivery dates. And while they have more work than they can handle, they could not make payroll last year and had to do a layoff. The result is rushing the team that is left to meet crazy dates, and deliver products that are not the quality that they should be.

Poor contract acquisition has left this company strapped for cash and it shows. Nothing new on the horizon has people worried. Management only holds meetings when there is something good about to happen. When they are silent for months at a time that generally means layoffs or we are being purchased/sold. Upper management/Vice Presidents seem to be rewarded for failure while the rest of us get salaries cut/vacations cut/health insurance stripped. Accountability up the ladder seems nil while the little guy takes the brunt of the layoff stick.