Aug 9, 2012
Mapcom Systems reviews about "management"
45% positive business outlook
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14 reviews
2.0
Jan 12, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
It's a laid back office with nice restrooms and lots of free snacks. There are some intelligent and pleasant people there. The company likes to organize parties and events for their employees which is refreshing and very start-up esque. The clients are also generally pleasant to deal with. Time off is easy to get. It's great as a post college stepping stone.
Cons
Like someone else said, management is truly awful... There are some decent people and there are some dead weights. It seems like you will become a manager if you last-- they promote based on seniority not merit... It can be very cliquey and managers will favour brown nosing and promote those people. Reviews are based on how much you are liked and not what you know. It's blatant favouritism at times. The training is poor at best and most people are too busy to offer much help. They say it's a salaried job but they want your time reported down to the minute and they will scrutinize it at random intervals. It's more like an hourly job that watches you very closely. But it's work; it's not a place to have fun.
3.0
Jan 26, 2017
Data Integration Specialist
Former employee, more than 8 years
Richmond, VA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
It's a great job/career for someone coming out right out of college; if you put enough effort and time in, you can eventually move to the position you want to within the company. The people I worked with were great, alot of talented programmers/developers/analysts (They call the database analysts at Mapcom "Data Integration Specialists"), just a generally friendly atmosphere overall. Free snacks and drinks, even freshly prepared lunch on some days. My two favorite things about this company were the extraordinarily talented developers/programmers I worked with and learned new/complex programming concepts from, and the awesome food that was prepared by that ever-wonderful woman that runs the front desk most of the time. I feel that she has gone unrecognized for her contributions for decades with Mapcom! Even though they encouraged physical fitness and exercise, this free reign on the food and drink made it tough not to gain weight, but small potatoes in my opinion.
Cons
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".
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