Strange Experience - Software Development Engineer In Test iSoftStone Employee Review

1.0
Sep 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

They have a nice Kirkland office that has beautiful views of Lake Washington. They have several different social events including summer picnics and a holiday party.

Cons

This is a family values company, and there is passive aggression towards anyone that does not meet this criteria. They have successfully placed people that do meet this critieria in roles for which they seemed to be way underqualified. These people become fiercely loyal wingnuts. I suspect that they have contacts with people at local companies who share the same views. I was subjected to directed anti-LGBT harassment even though I am entirely celibate and always have been. Eventually I found out that they had been in contact with one or more of my previous managers that had been fired for harassing me for the same assumptions. The company has gone through several mysterious upper management upheavals over the years, but from personal experience most of them seem to share the same negative views towards LGBT people and/or perhaps anyone that supports them. One of numerous different examples: someone from upper management called me a gay slur as I was leaving the last team lunch that I attended, and this had happened several times before as well. Support from and contact with my company supervisor was almost nonexistent.

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iSoftStone Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We sincerely regret that we have not been able to reply sooner. We take the concerns of our employees seriously and have taken time to discuss this review internally since we became aware of it. At iSoftStone, we welcome members of the LGBT community. We are proud of our diverse workplace culture and are committed to creating an inclusive, positive, and safe work environment. From our website, to our employee handbook, this commitment can be seen in our day-to-day practices, reiterated in our employee trainings, and emphasized with every new hire orientation. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer, and actively strive to make iSoftStone a work place that is both collegiate and fun, as well as one that embraces differences. If you would like to provide additional feedback, we invite you to take our anonymous survey: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3285391/iSoftStone-Feedback-Survey

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