Don - Anonymous employee Photon Employee Review

2.0
May 14, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to learn a lot of stuff and manage time. That's it.

Cons

The HR team has people signing up to GlassDoor and provide high ratings to skew the overall ratings. Need Evidence? Just see the ratings trend and note that the ratings suddenly shoot up on May 2014. If only more tools were available, it would be clear that all the 5-stars would have been awarded at the same time frame. Trust me, you don't want to work here. One of most caustic work environments that you can see. I almost laughed out of loud while reading work/life balance and senior management.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Can be on interesting projects Some really good people If on correct team can be very good conditions such as remote work

Cons

Zero opportunities for growth Limited to no work/life balance No Severance Do not pay when on the bench Wrong team or manager the hr insanity can make it rough (One year they decided july 4th was not a holiday another they decided to lower the salary and increase the percentage that was bonus effectually giving everyone a pay cut).. Honestly a 2 might being generous but i have worked with some nice people there and the vast majority of the people were nice and good just wanting to get the job done . Any 5s are probably fake or the lucky few that do not have to deal with Photon Hr.

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