Open Access Technology International reviews

I worked at OATI for ~1 year. My biggest advice for this company is that if you need a job and they have offered, take it. But - do NOT stop looking for a new job. If you're having a hard time finding employment, it's still a paycheck. But regardless, do not stop looking! Hours are very strict - you cannot be a minute past 8:00 AM or there will be an automatic e-mail sent to your everyone on the hierarchy scale. Employees will line up at 5:00 PM at the door to badge out as early as they can without getting any e-mails sent. Computers are out of date. I could hardly work on my computer using any adobe product. Constant computer problems. Rarely were there laptops - most had a desktop. HR sent out a mass e-mail stating that we have one hour of break per day. *Including* bathroom breaks, water breaks, breakfast breaks, coffee breaks, lunch breaks. Anything that required logging out of your computer or leaving your desk was considered apart of your one hour. I was told that I was a valuable employee - but that I would get a promotion 1-2 years from my start date. This would be a 30 cent promotion. Your managers have no idea what you are working on. We are required to complete a project log each Friday to send to our manager so they can micromanage because they do not socialize outside of their office even though it's an "open door policy" They let go of 40 people and sent out letters to these individuals on a Friday night. Employees were showing up to the gate and their badge did not work. They were let in by the front desk receptionists because none of the information was relayed to them!!!! E-mail and IM chats are monitored. Legitimately - monitored. Immensely under-payed. We had graphic designers start and our company wouldn't pay for more adobe licenses and made it the employees' issue to figure out. Zero communication to employees from management. Employees are not valued because they view them replaceable. Tend to get paid every 2.5 weeks instead of every other week. The dates shake out pretty weird.

Most of the things that are mentioned on Glassdoor are true, although they may sound ironic to an outsider. Read them carefully! OATI has a few old projects that have created a constant stream of stable money, but it struggles on new projects. There are very few good people working at the company, but otherwise, there are many people (read managers, as nearly half of the US office is managers) that cannot perform well in any setting. The turnover is ridiculously high! They try to hire people with the lowest possible salary, so everyone is looking for jobs a few months after they are hired. Anyone that is good enough to be hired elsewhere will leave the company and anyone who can't, will stay for a very long time, so OATI has ended up with a lot of terrible employees. The India office is the same: a few good developers but mostly mediocre ones. A project that should last one month in a typical software company will probably last at least six months at OATI due to many rounds of back and forth debugging with the India office. All other stuff are already mentioned many times here. Lost of micromanagement, etc.