Epic reviews

The company takes advantage of the fact that most employees are recent college graduates who have the mentality of getting a project done even if it means pulling all-nighters. I've worked 15 hours daily (weekends included!) and when I ask for internal help, my managers just told me to spend more of my nights and weekends working. At the end of the project, I didn't even get recognized for my hard work. The managers are mostly in their mid-twenties and do not know how to grow their team members nor troubleshoot. Some managers with more tenure just do whatever they want (being disrespectful in meetings - someone said out-loud that a presentation was boring, giving attitudes, etc). Although these folks get negative reviews consistently, nothing changes. At the end of the day, I was destroying my health and my personal relationships without any recognition nor support from this company. Also, there is barely any diversity in this company.

1) One's experience here depends a lot on who your team leader is, so performance evaluations and some fringe benefits like the ability to work from home can be inconsistent across employees. 2) Probably the most common complaint is that the "minimum" workweek is 50 hours. We do a lot with very little. The pretty way of saying it is that "we do whatever it takes to get things done" but that really means that you can work 60 hours a week for months and it's your responsibility to become more efficient so that you can try to have a "work life balance." 3) Performance evaluations and resource staffing are based on fuzzy gut feelings. Due to the nature of our work, there is no way to discretely evaluate and measure these things. This can cause tension between those who make decisions and those who have to live with them. 5) It really is a survival of the fittest environment. 6) Our CEO refuses to: put a raft transportation system around our growing campus, put in a cellphone tower, build an airport closer to campus, put in fitness rooms.