Zachry Group reviews

- Middle age management that's trying to figure out how to retire more quickly]. - Cross-training managers creates managers who are managing departments that they don't have technical expertise or experience. - Field employees will work 50 + hrs a week on salary, uncompensated. - Benefits are mediocre compared to a lot of other companies and industries, until you get to middle upper management with the bonus structure. - You won't have a voice until you spend 20 years in the company, enough people die, and you can no longer move anywhere else. - Management, technology, and IT is seriously dated. The company doesn't want to make investments that will save time or money unless it's written in VBA or COBOL. - If you fill a .net programming position, expect to work with .net 1.0, and maybe 2.0 versions as things are seriously dated. When you work with these systems, if you show any competency your co-workers may try to force you out in fear of their own positions. It's what the software industry calls a mortgage career. - The company lacks basic source control, code conventions, documentation, or IT / developer education. Whatever works is fine, even if whatever works isn't realistic or effective. - Don't expect basic IT security or common sense to take precedence. - Company states that they value education, innovation, or new ideas, this only extends as far as a 25 year manager dying or retiring. - IT investment only comes if the direct costs can be immediately justified with a return in 1-3 months from the investment date. - Don't expect modern or useful IT resources. You may be assigned engineering CAD work stations that take 40 minutes to an hour to boot and open autocad. - Company asks you to commit 3+ years to them, but they're unwilling to make the same commitment to you unless your middle / upper management. (At-will employer). Consider your employment contingent upon markets conditions, or your willingness to be an ineffective and unthreatening employee. - Company says they make commitments to their communities, but that community extends as far as tax write-offs and employee moral boosts. - Management departments with people who have been mediocrely trained across 4 other various depts. in the last 10-15 years, become mediocre and ineffective managers.. - There's a serious good-old boy personality here, if you like to dear hunt using dogs and get trashed on your weekends, this is a great place to work If this was a start-up company, it'd probably call itself professional and have kegarators in the break rooms, but it's not. It's run by a bunch of people who are toeing the grave. - If your an engineer, expect to work lots of overtime as the company is willing to reassign resources or projects between various department or offices. - If you didn't graduate from Texas A&M, you should probably seek employment elsewhere.

This company doesn't develop software. They would like to hire you as a MVC, .NET, C#, DB developer so that you can improve the linked excel sheets or correct the Oracle 9.0 data API's that corrupt on export. You'll find that there's a lack of scope, specifications, understanding, source control, documentation, reading / understanding, standards, or ideas on how to progress projects. If you ask about implementing a system for source control, test and live development, distributed computing, you'll bo stonewalled by your fellow employees and eventually released. Typical software development that should normally take 3-6 months will take 5+ years due to a lack skill. The company in general doesn't replace hardware or software until well after critical security updates have been discontinued, and at that point they'll throw money at a project to mitigate risks rather than proactively tackle problems. The Software developers currently employed are typically mechanical engineers or structural engineers who read the sparks note to SQL Server 2000 development guide. Typically the managers for IT solutions come from similar backgrounds. They've never written a line of code, they can boot a computer by pressing the power button, and if they have trouble starting excel or logging in they'll come look for you. These are the people who are "cross-trained" from other fields and are now making critical software decisions on products. You'll find that buzzwords are big here, and if you can use "distributed computing" to deliver email, "run vectorized CAD programs on cellphones," or "harness the IoT SaaS model to develop better accounting ," you'll do well here. - The pay, benefits, and perks aren't comparable to the rest of the software industry (start-up or established companies). You'd be better off looking elsewhere. - You're co-workers will likely be in positions of power over you even though they're learning how to write an if-statement. If you speak up, they may consider your knowledge and experience a potential threat.