Hatch reviews

As a non-shareholder, your highest priority is to secure billable hours at all costs. The company has been downsizing heavily for several years due to its inability to secure contracts. Transparency is low. Quarterly townhall meetings to present positive company outlooks are considered non-billable. In-house training is non-billable. Standard beginning vacation allotment is 15 days increasing to the upper limit of 20 days after 5 years of service. The company shuts down for 7 unpaid business days over the Christmas break. You're encouraged to apply your vacation time or any accrued approved banked overtime to this period. Monetary compensation is lower than industry averages in the GTA.

Being billable to a project is the number one priority, and with mining taking a downturn the number of active projects is low, making you very vulernable to the HR termination team. Mass layoffs with no comment from management other than "we are in good shape" makes for a very distasteful working environment. Each day there could be your last day. Meanwhile the hiring of younger professionals continues while the more experienced ones are walked out of the door. The two tier system of associates and regular Joes is demeaning, and reeks of a Game Of Thrones type of management. The logo is turning orange.