Milestone Technologies reviews

SALARY IS HORRID. Prepare to be paid absolute crap if you work with this company, and don't be surprised if you notice things like how they change their offer before onboarding you, trick you into accepting a different title with lower pay when you actually come on as the higher title you were interviewed for in the first place, and gouge the normal salaries paid for people who actually work for the partner company, leaving you beans. The position I work now is normally paid upon entry about $30k more than Milestone is paying me, as an example, so they are making insane amounts of money off of me right now. HR IS USELESS. Somehow, simple administrative items like listing open positions with appropriate titles and correct job descriptions is something that eludes those within Milestone, and good luck actually starting a position anytime soon after it's offered to you. If you have questions about how anything works on the HR end, expect no answer or weird answers or wrong answers, because it seems like the whole department is just winging it all the time. MOST PROJECTS ARE EXTREMELY DISORGANIZED. A great example of this is the Google project, which I wouldn't be surprised if Milestone got fired from within the next year because of the insane level of disorganization and ridiculously horrid management. It's just really really bad, at every single angle, and no one cares or tries to really fix it. Other projects have similar issues, but I haven't been to all of the projects, so I can't speak for all of them. THE HIRING BAR IS EXTREMELY LOW. It's not terribly difficult to get into this company. It's also not terribly difficult to get walked out for any reason they decide at any time. For the competent, it's incredibly frustrating to have utterly useless team members coming and going. THERE IS NO UPWARD MOBILITY. Seriously. Milestone is a good place to start if you are new to the work world or even to the Bay Area, but it's not a place to stay for long.

Milestone makes money by undercutting pretty much every standard practice in the IT industry. My first clue should have been the fact that they and the client company interviewed me on advanced Linux system engineering and Network topics, which made sense since I have nearly 2 decades of experience in that. The problem is the job they put me in was 80 low level windows administration and, get this, resetting user passwords. I kept thinking I'd get projects in my area of expertise, and eventually I did... 7 months later, aaaand then I was laid off. My coworkers had the exact same scenario. Gee. I wonder why the client company didn't "need" the team anymore. Benefits: PTO: 10days/year - oh but you get zero sick time. So if you actually want to take a 2 week vacation, you better not get sick or have to stay home with a sick kid at all during the year. I literally had a better PTO benefit working as a dishwasher for a chain restaurant when I was 18. In contrast, my previous company combined PTO and sick time as well as standard holidays in to one big pool, but the allotment was 40days/per year. 401k: no matching % Insurance: Garden variety But here's the kicker. The client company decided they didn't need my team anymore, so I got "laid off". I put laid off in quotes because I've been laid off before; literally everybody I know in the IT industry has. In every case there is some amount of severance pay given. Not at milestone. I was told to get on unemployment, while they put me in an "unpaid administrative position" while they put me through the interview process again with other clients. I was told that even though they weren't going to pay me during this process, I'd have to continue making paying my portion of insurance. Classy. One last tidbit. At one 'all hands' meeting nearly all of the questions from the employees were about the PTO policy. The management had the gall to say "it's just too expensive to give sick time in addition to 10days of PTO." This company is bottom of the barrel in the IT industry. I have to think that the reason they treat employees so poorly is because they don't know any other way to make a profit.