Non-Transferrable Experience, Lots of OT - Implementation Consultant Fast Enterprises Employee Review

2.0
Mar 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I liked most of the other Implementation Consultants I worked with. The annual company retreat is a nice gesture, and can be fun.

Cons

If you are coming from a computer science background, or are looking for that kind of job, I would avoid this role. Aside from some SQL experience, most of what you learn here is not transferable. This is not a software developer role. You mostly use proprietary tools/GUIs/Visual Studio Add-Ons, and occasionally write a plug-in class. A lot of the code is very dated. They were using VB.NET when I left in 2018. I didn't think about this when I joined, and I found it very difficult to transition out of this job to a normal developer role. They do not scale up well. You will be expected to do the work of 2 people for certain initiatives (new projects, version upgrades, service packs). There were numerous 6-12 month spans were I averaged over 60 hours a week. You get paid for every hour you work, so some people are okay with this. But I did not appreciate the unrealistic workloads, working until I went to bed, coming in on weekends, etc. The owners are very old-fashioned and stubborn. They were very opposed to remote work and even during peak Covid were asking people to go into office if the client was. This is totally unnecessary. Moving people around the country (and sometimes internationally) is too. I had no problem doing my work remote during Covid. In many cases it was easier (sharing screens instead of trying to look over someone's shoulder for example). Forcing people to move on a whim to horrible places is really toxic and inconsiderate. I thought the travel aspect would be cool when I first started. But take a good look at the state capitals. Most of them are small, random towns. It will be very hard to maintain friendships, date, build community, buy a house, etc. This is a big reason why people quit (along with burnout). By the time I burned out, I was stuck in a random location I didn't want to be in, working brutal amounts of overtime, with a resume that was haunted by esoteric, non-transferrable experience. If I could go back in time, I would tell myself not to take this job.

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