After sitting on the professional services team for 3 years and seeing no clear path for career progression I attempted to to branch into other areas to progress my status/career in the company and actually interviewed and stood a GREAT chance at moving on in the company with a different team. After all, sitting idle isn't how one moves up in the world. I had already built myself a solid reputation within the company but let's just say egos run high in Quadient. The "powers that be" apparently would rather fire a valued member of the team rather than let someone from their team try to progress their career. Butt-hurt much? The immaturity plus the lack of real leadership qualities wouldn't have held any water in any other company. I think the only aspect of the job the leadership was truly good at was email management. Everything else was pretty much handled through a program called Autotask which I referred to as the "automated micromanager" if that tells you anything. Autotask was relied on MUCH too heavily and was just an awful program all around. You had to log EVERYTHING. Matter of fact, much of your workday was consumed by Autotask entries. Having worked remote positions before and partially currently I can honestly say that the majority of that logging (time/tickets etc...) was very much overkill.
Don't plan on learning any new technical skills as a programmer. They don't run things like a typical code shop on the professional services team and the leadership tries to rule with an iron fist despite having absolutely no clue about the amount of work that goes into programming nor how an engineering department should be ran....again, how does the "leadership" even have this kind of job? The professional services/sales team also relies too heavily on a single individual who has been with the company for quite awhile. If this person were to quit today or have a tragic accident the US portion of the company would be up a certain creek without a paddle. A company should NEVER put all their eggs into one basket.
The company blew money left and right on stuff like swag to give to employees, pointless trips that rehash the same information year after year (honestly it was more of 3-5 day drinking party and the information presented got to a point in redundancy that after 3.5 years just began to be tedious rather than fun and beneficial) but when it came to yearly pay increases you got very little. Makes sense, right?
Senseless meetings ran rampant. There were tons of meetings. There were meetings for meetings (read that again) and to be quite honest if they actually worked as much as they had meetings, they would be a much more lucrative company.
Quadient is in the mailing industry so we all know where that is heading. They rely WAY to heavily on the USPS. I mean, even Amazon has their own delivery service now so its only a matter of time before the USPS goes belly up. You should probably find something more secure.
The pay is atrocious. Don't expect to get paid what a software engineer would typically get paid elsewhere. I jumped right into another role after this job making more than 30K more than I was making with Quadient.
