Southland Industries reviews

- Temp-to-hire IT contractors are lead to believe they have a chance at a full time position. This is seemingly untrue and I feel terrible for anyone accepting a contract under this premise. From everything I saw, you will likely NOT be hired full time under the company if you join as a contractor under any of the IT departments; I can't think of any exceptions based on the many conversations I had with people who left, but I suppose it is possible some exist. - Extremely high IT turnover rate for both contractor and full time positions in all IT departments. Many lasted only a few days to a few weeks. Members of the technology support department are the greatest casualties in this regard. The technology support manager can be a brutal micro-manager and I feel it leads to really poor team morale. - I felt I was unofficially expected to be available to work 24/7. - CIO seems to hire mostly friends for managerial and leadership positions. - IT leadership strongly believes that "anyone is replaceable" (this is voiced in other reviews on here as well). - The IT team is now a skeleton crew, riddled with non-stop emergencies as the most talented senior members flee to companies who might care about them. At its heart, Southland was a fantastic company to work for in the IT department. They used to be comfortable investing in infrastructure and employees and everyone was so much happier for it. Unfortunately the last few years have suffered greatly due to changes in IT leadership who will do anything to save pennies, and it is only a matter of time before these poor decisions are ultimately reflected in the business' bottom line. Naturally everything in my review is only a statement of my opinion based on my experiences with the company, but honestly, if you had the sense to look up this review and have aspirations to have a fulfilling position in IT, you're too good for this company and you owe it to yourself to find any job elsewhere. It makes me sad, but I cannot recommend joining them.

Southland discriminates against working women. They do a good looking from the outside that they care about people and promote women and " encourage " them to participate in " Women In construction events" (i.e. by sending a general email, you will never NEVER receive positive encouragement from your boss) . While in reality women are harassed, women work twice as hard to be visible in this culture. Men stick up to working men, they never take a women side even if this women has all the rights and facts . Bosses make negative comments about women. Women do not receive training as much as working men. Men are given many million chances if they make mistakes while it's a disaster if a woman makes a very small mistake. As a female, I was treated as trash at this company. I was never given chances and training as much as my male coworkers. STAY AWAY.