Don't waste your time and skills here. CSI is not a place for career growth. - Database Programmer CompuSystems Employee Review

1.0
Jan 18, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers. You will have the opportunity to have good partners & friends here They will understand your pain and frustration. Free 15 min massage once or twice a month. After work activities like happy hour, bowling and game events (Not a company event, this is organized by employees for employees). Health benefits are VERY expensive but you get good coverage (dental plan is a joke) 401k

Cons

Poor training (if any) "land of the lost" I totally agree. Tons and tons of work and updates and no time to please everybody help others and meet tight deadlines at the same time. Always on the call (if you are a programmer, analyst, IT, or ESM) Long work hours (8:30am - 5:00pm plus another three or four at home plus weekend hours, you do the count). Salary not competitive, pay is low compared to the amount of hours you have to put in. This is why they are always hiring the "desperate" the unemployed and the recent college graduates to hire them for cheap. They use the excuse of the bad economy to freeze salary raises or to give you pennies in your salary increase. Like another reviewer before me stated, Technology and Infrastructure is outdated. Database and servers are dinosaurs waiting to die. No support from management, when something goes wrong everybody points the finger at each other. If you are in technology, you can't learn anything new here, everything is custom made for in-house use; you can't take this old technology with you anywhere else.

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CompuSystems Response
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Dear Former Database Programmer, Thank you for taking the time to write a review and thank you for your hard work while employed at CSI. I appreciate it. A the beginning of 2014 we began a project to develop a completely new technology platform. The project is on schedule and the technology is fantastic. Our staff is very excited about it. The technology is modern and leading edge. We are building user tools that will be industry leading. One of the parts we're most excited about is how the platform is going to allow our staff to be extremely efficient in their jobs. It's particularly pertinent to your feedback because the database programmers will probably benefit the most from the new technology stack. We believe our compensation and benefits are competitive in the marketplace but of course we're always trying to improve them. Employee satisfaction is our number one priority and we've recently improved our training programs as well as added staff to reduce workloads. And, it's important to point out, we always treat our employees with respect and we always appreciate their hard work. If you find yourself between jobs please give us another look. I know you'll be very impressed with our new platform. Sincerely, Chris Williams President

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