Syska Hennessy reviews

The biggest issues I experienced were managements inability to change their strategies after it was clear that the current direction was heavily pointed downward. I'm not sure how much of this "stay the course" attitude was driven my local Atlanta management or by corporate management out of NYC but it was obvious things were spiraling downward in terms of morale, staffing and revenue. Over the course of 2 years I watched around half of the staff leave the Atlanta office. Management never supplemented these major losses with new talent to fill in the gaps left behind. At first, one would think this is a great opportunity to promote from within and increase compensation for all remaining employees but that didn't happen either. So what you were left with was an understaffed office that overworked the remaining employees while not earning higher salaries. It was clear that local management was aware of the need for staff but they always countered with excuses such as "we don't have the budget for more staff right now," "we found someone but their compensation demands were too high and we couldn't come to an agreement" and sometimes just "it's really hard to find someone right now."

Very low salaries, especially for the hard work you put in. Amount of responsibilities/work do not equate to the right amount of compensation. There are a lot of office politics involved. You have to "know" your management in order to get special treatment. Felt like those who were "in the crowd" had more perks than others and were more likely to be recognized. There are times when there is no work at all and times where you are expected to get a deadline out no matter the cost (50 hrs/week). Management seems to only care about themselves. Even after about 5 senior engineers retired/left, I have no clue how the company doesn't have enough money to give us better salaries. That's like half a million dollars in salaries that could have been split up to raise our compensation. Sometimes you are ignored for a certain opportunity, just because you don't have experience in one area.