No longer a good place to work - Principal Consultant Sparq Employee Review

1.0
Jul 16, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good for large companies looking to hire cheap labor done by people who are increasingly being outsourced south of the border (non US citizens).

Cons

I preface this with clarification that I was not laid off or fired so this is not a disgruntled employee who was forced out. I left because I saw the writing on the wall. - Cares more about money than people. - Is currently in the process of laying off many (most?) US developers and replacing them with foreign/cheaper replacements. They then market this as "near shoring", because it’s technically not over seas. - There is little chance of you working on something that you enjoy and if you complain, you’ll be on the chopping block. - Being "put on the bench" is an almost guaranteed layoff. - Leadership is dishonest about the direction of the company. They hold town halls where they talk about how well the company is doing but then lay off 10+ year loyal employees within the same week. - Strings developers along to keep them at the company long enough to fulfill contracts and then lays said employees off.

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Cons

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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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