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Gateway Ticketing Systems

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Good place, could be better - Anonymous employee Gateway Ticketing Systems Employee Review

3.0
May 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good, smart people to work with Coworkers, and even management, are really pleasant people Good pay Nice benefits, particularly the tech reimbursement which others have mentioned Good relationship with local community, leads to special perks and discounts at local businesses (what few there are...)

Cons

Located in the middle of nowhere, with a looooooong commute from anyplace decent to live in any direction! Many employees have commutes of 30-60 minutes or worse, both ways. Being located in either Philadelphia or Reading would be good. Halfway between them... not so much. Parking lot is too small. (Made worse by the fact that it's out in the middle of nowhere and therefore infeasible to walk to work.) Bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy! The employee manual is over 100 pages long! Status meetings every day that don't accomplish anything useful whatsoever. There are two days every three weeks where 1/2 to 2/3 of your entire day will be utterly wasted by useless meetings. There's an unhealthy fixation on time logging for everything, even non-billable projects. There used to be project-based status meetings that took too much time but actually helped keep everyone on the same page. These got replaced by "team-based" status meetings that do nothing useful because you aren't actually working together with the people on your "team," so you spend most of the time sitting around listening to people talk about stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with anything you're working on. That was *not* an improvement! It's a 30-year-old software company, which means a 30-year-old codebase, and it really shows in some places. Technical debt abounds and no one seems to be in any hurry to clean it up! Goals are constantly being moved around, which is highly stressful to technical workers. The number of open support issues was cut by over 50% during 2015, chasing a goal that kept getting lower and lower every time employees almost caught up. I don't think that goal has been "green" for three straight days at any point in 2015 or 2016, which means it's not actually a goal at all, but rather a treadmill.

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1.0
Jun 1, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

None worth calling out or mentioning.

Cons

After working at Gateway for several years now, I can honestly say this is the worst company I’ve worked for in my career. The place is chaotic, reactive, and draining. There is not enough clear direction, ownership is often messy, and people spend way too much time trying to figure out who is supposed to do what. The company talks about process, but it does not feel consistent. Things are vague until there is a problem, then suddenly everything turns into blame and extra scrutiny. That gets old fast. Management makes the environment harder than it needs to be. There is a lot of checking in, questioning, and asking for updates, but not enough actual support or clear decision-making. It creates stress without solving the underlying issues. Teams do not seem aligned, communication is poor, and employees end up carrying the weight of bad planning. A lot of problems feel completely avoidable. I would not recommend working here. It is not a stable or healthy environment, and the company seems unwilling to admit how much of the frustration comes from the way it operates.

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