QTS reviews

Upper management, by their own admission, are really real estate gurus. They purchase under-performing properties, fix them up, and make datacenters. It's a great idea. The problem is, on a technical level, they are completely inept. I think they're good people and do care, but they just don't know how. The employment door is revolving. Good people get hired, have a honeymoon period, then leave. The benefits are more like a startup than a real tech company. The health plan is an HSA... not good for older people or folks with families. Low 401K match. There is an odd fanaticism at work here. If you're in the "inner circle" you're totally set no matter how much you stink at your job.

Work life balance is non-existent. Ever since the company was bought by Blackstone, there has been a much higher focus on financial data over anything else. This has led to hiring less than qualified people for lower pay, major understaffing issues, and annual “raises” that don’t even compensate for inflation, meaning you actually start losing money the longer you work here. Due to massive understaffing I on more than a few occasions was “asked” to work weekends, holidays, and swing/night shifts, when I had explicitly told management that due to the birth of my new child, I wouldn’t be able to cover, and was promised reasonable accommodation. I was at that point told that even though my hiring letter stating a Monday through Friday day shift schedule, that didn’t matter and the company could make me work any schedule required. I saw on more than one occasion an internal employee get passed over for a promotion in favor of an external hire. One of those employees had been doing the duties of the role above them for over a year, and when they interviewed for that very position, they got told “you have no experience in this, so we can’t promote you”. That position then went to an outside hire with not only no experience in the role, but no experience in the data center industry at all. This is a great place to get your foot in the door, but if you are looking to move up in a company, get your feet wet here and move on to somewhere else.