High Pressure, Little Thanks - Software Support Engineer Truno Employee Review

2.0
Feb 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Challenging, fast-paced work, good peers to work with, very little supervisor micro-managing, overtime available for those who wanted it. Pretty good starting pay for the market. Decent opportunities to train on new technology.

Cons

Flawed culture where the customer is always right - even if they were blatantly wrong. Sales reps were prone to making promises beyond the scope of what should've been allowed - and the Support Engineers and Field Service Techs then had to provide the service level that the salesperson erroneously promised. There seemed to be little or no adverse consequences for the salesperson. Most of the time, as a Support staffer, you felt like you were wrong even if you solved an issue correctly and in a timely manner. Everyone from the Support Supervisors on down were over-worked. Good Support Engineers were passed over for new jobs because they were too valuable to lose from Support. Raises were very slow to be handed out. Benefits were mediocre - mainly because of the health insurance. The more the employees had to pay out of pocket, the worse the coverage. There was basically no outside recruiting to fill open staff positions.

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1.0
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Pros

Good learning experience to develop skills to transfer to another company. Support Technicians build universal skills with Windows servers and terminals, scripting, network troubleshooting, and remote support that are applicable in the general IT field along with NCR Encor experience that's only really applicable to grocery point-of-sale but is valuable within that small field of IT.

Cons

Skill building is only rewarded with more work. Management intentionally inhibits communication and insists that communication be done only through direct chain of command where issues that should be addressed with other departments are repeatedly ignored in hopes that someone in the support room works overtime to make up for any neglected duties from L3 or other departments even if they are not equipped to do so. Management intentionally hides all vendor documentation from the support room. Management neglects to define any distinction between L1 and L2 technicians, so management cannot trust support technicians below L3 with basic techniques like batch scripting because of that neglected distinction, and there are unqualified unfairly favored individuals in L3 that can't be trusted with batch scripts which exacerbates that issue.

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