Entech System Engineer reviews

- Pay The ability to increase compensation beyond what you start with is nonexistent for the majority of employees and it is felt across the board. The frustration from each employee to get more in compensation is felt across the board with nearly everyone being paid far less than they are worth, this is apparent as nearly every internal survey showed a majority of employees rating Entech the lowest in this regard. Entech does offer COLA but they make no guarantees and only a very few employees are actually eligible for it. Whatever your starting pay is will likely be very close or similar to what your pay is when you leave Entech, upper management will regurgitate the same few phrases in regards to increasing pay, that the ways pay can be increased are clear but this is more or less a shield to hide behind as there are no clear steps you can take to actually receive these raises, they are vague by design, such as "Merit Raises" of which in my time I only heard a handful of employees receiving. If you are experienced in IT you can expect to be paid about average for the current job market locally in SWFL, however this is drastically lower than what you can expect to find with a full remote position - Management Entech is very much a boys club, the people getting promotions or moving positions are those who can do the most brown nosing or fit in the best with upper management. This leads to some employees getting needless "Director" promotions to departments that don't have any employees to actually direct because they happen to be close friends with a VP. Entech management has a willful ignorance of how unhappy employees are. With several negative reviews on their Glassdoor management Entech management will try and get as many people as possible to try to flood out the negative reviews, or will appeal to Glassdoor in any attempt to get them removed instead of looking inward and trying to appeal to employees. - Workload Entech operates lean, they brag about it, which admittedly does have its benefits, such as they have never had to perform layoffs due to hardships in the economy, the downside of this is that everyone is constantly overburdened with work and is eternally burnt out. Entech will take everything you are willing to give it, there are always too many tickets and not enough engineers, this leads to engineers who are not willing to stand up for themselves getting pelted and constantly bogged down with emergency after emergency, while other engineers get fewer tickets because they successfully put their foot down. There is an OnCall rotation, it has gotten better over time but the compensation for it is not nearly enough as the SLA to respond back to clients over the weekend is not enough time to take care of basic tasks such as cooking for yourself or your family, going to the grocery store, House chores, etc. However if you are a supervisor there is no compensation for your on-call rotation.

Management is a joke. The reviews are correct. The pay is subpar--$35,000-$45,000--and will only go up if you hound management constantly. Expectations are incredibly high for how little they incentivize you to meet them. Annual raises to account for inflation is a myth. They only happen if staff complain loudly enough during "town halls," and that's only if you can fit your question in inbetween their planted softball questions. There is always an excuse as to why the bonus won't be paid out. The bonuses serve to light a fire under you during the company-wide meetings, but mysteriously targets are never met despite beating the previous year's profits. Promotions are mostly in-name only. Don't expect the normal world of "Get promoted? Here's a raise!" No, no. Here it's: you get promoted, time to start bugging management for half a year to get your money while each of them say it's not up to them, it's up to so-and-so. Also, read the fine print and do the math yourself, it’s not out of their wheelhouse to offer you a net cut in pay disguised as a promotion. What about a path to earn more money? They'll tell you to get XYZ certification and they'll bump your pay. What they fail to mention is that they switch what certification they want around often enough that if you get it, there's still only a slim chance you'll actually see the money. Can you move up? Of course you can! Provided you schmooze management. Not do your job, just schmooze. Join the book club, anytime one of them is going to lunch in a group, join. Laugh at their jokes, agree with their backwards views and eventually you too can be put in charge of a department you have no idea how to deal with. Management spends most of their time on TikTok, or dozens of meetings amongst themselves to pat themselves on the back, or just outright going golfing in the middle of the day with their friends, disguising it as networking. They're so cheap they moved the company Christmas party--which is a potluck for god's sake--to a Saturday so they don't have to pay for the half-day of labor. Previous review was also correct, there was a guy floating around Entech for a couple years and no one, not a single person, knew what he did, just that he was the friend of the director of the department. If you're considering employment here, get ready to mislead clients as much as management will mislead you.