Watching a company being squeezed by investors - Operations Flexential Employee Review

2.0
Jul 30, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good data centers, not the best, but above average. A few employees remain that have pride in their work.

Cons

Even the newest data centers don't use adiabatic cooling, renewable energy or anything leading edge. The company seems to be in the process of being "Bained", as in Bain Capital. You cut all long term projects. Cut operating costs to the bone. Remove as many employee benefits as possible. Dangle huge incentives to the senior management team to carry out the dirty work. This boosts short term profits to investors until the business starts to fall apart and then sell of the pieces to competitors for a profit. Capitalism at its best. Too bad for the employees. Oh yea, the name is the worst.

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Flexential Response
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Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback. After the acquisition, the company did engage Bain to work with us to drive our initial integration plan and organizational construct. Since then, the local teams have been at work on the integration of the two companies. We expect to be fully integrated by Q1 2019. With regard to employee benefits, we've added some benefits such as unlimited PTO, richer tuition assistance and technical certifications, increased life insurance and for our Western employees, our most significant enrichment was to take our 401k match from a 50% match on 4% of salary to a 75% match on 6% of salary.

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