Low pay but varied assignments - Software Developer Sparq Employee Review

3.0
Sep 29, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

All programming for the client is done remotely. You might have to go onsite to meet them but the majority of your work is done over a VPN. Every client wants something different.

Cons

Due to the business model, you will be underpaid for what you know. You get outsource work, stuff the client either doesn't want to do or doesn't have time. Also clients tend to be four to ten years behind on technology so you will not be working with the "latest and greatest".

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Pros

Leadership was relatively hands off. Requirements regarding interacting with anyone at Sparq while on a client were nonexistent.

Cons

Leadership has literally no idea what they are doing. At no point in my years with Sparq did senior leadership give any indication that they knew what was going on with clients. They also refused to take any accountability for hard times. The new CEO would often blame any company shortcomings on the economy or even politics. The company threw out the old model of getting rural engineers into the work force and decided it was cheaper to force cheap foreign labor on our clients which inevitably killed the company forcing massive layoffs. They also pay very very little for the industry but lie about it.

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