Mapcom Systems reviews

Where to begin? The average salary there is laughably below market value to "keep you hungry". Once you have proven your worth, you get small bumps but the pay gap is "made up in bonuses". These "bonuses" can come anywhere from 1-6 months later than the original dates, and almost always come in disappointingly low (not to mention highly taxed). You are penalized if you work "only" 45 hours a week (It's an unofficial motto that "This isn't a 40-hour-a-week job"). The job becomes your life, and management honestly wouldn't want it any other way. Upper management is filled with "Yes-Men" and if you voice your concerns/criticisms you will be shunned and reprimanded. You are expected to work occasional weekends in support with no extra pay or comp time for your weekend shift. Support is terribly run, unorganized, and a majority of the support techs are either told to put their focus on areas of weakness or not trained properly at all. You will get burned out FAST.

Even though management doesn't explicitly say "work overtime", you begin to get the feeling that if you don't put in hours nightly/over the weekend outside of work, you'll get reprimanded because you don't meet the unrealistic deadlines that are set to begin with. Near the end of my career with Mapcom, they started to improve upon this, but the deadlines to complete implementation on most projects were still unrealistic in the end. If you let them, they will work you like a slave. I can recall many a night working until 2, 3, sometimes 4 AM into the morning on projects, all for the sake of attempting to "meet a deadline". The thing that hurt the most about this, was that management didn't seem to care about this fact, rather, they would encourage more of this to happen across the department. And I recognize the fact that they are primarily a family-owned company, but the salaries paid to anyone outside of a top-tier development role or management role leaves something to be desired. This is why alot of their best talent has left them over time. That being said, I do disagree with the statements made in other reviews about management being awful. There are good managers at this company, some that do care about your well-being, but others that only care as long as you "get the job done".