A place to experience new tech., hone and enhance your skills but beware of the negativity! - Network Engineer bei SparkNET Interactive: Mitarbeiterbewertung

2,0
24. Aug. 2012
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Pros

- You get to work with some bleeding edge technology, big data sets and highly available solutions. - Company provided equipment such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops. - You are usually given what you need to do your job without having to go through lengthy ROI/Budgeting processes. See above. - If you are in IT you are protected/exempted from a lot of the rules and policies imposed on the rest of the company, like Marketing or Editorial. - Company provided benefits and fully vested 401k.

Kontras

- Company pays below average wage for job when compared to other companies in the area. - Senior management is always trying to find ways to dislike someone there and once they are to that point, there is no point arguing with them about it because the only answer they will accept is their resignation or termination. - Negativity runs rampant in this company's culture. - The negativity causes employees that share a similar rank in the company to be continuously at each others' throats to contend for top spot with management. - Micromanagement runs rampant everywhere by senior management, even in areas where they have no expertise in or understanding of. - Favoritism of IT leads to poor social interaction between IT and the rest of the company which furthers some of the company's negative culture issues. - If you are in an on-call role and you have a family emergency, don't expect any forgiveness for not keeping in touch if you are contacted and forget to "check in."

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12y
It's not true that Senior Management is always trying to dislike someone here. That makes no sense. While I'm sorry you felt that way, it's only in our leadership teams' best interest to find ways to maintain and increase a positive rapport with our team members. -- Negativity does not run rampant. -- What you call "Micromanagement" --> you may have not liked how much accountability we aim to understand from every role within the company because if we don't have information about certain activities, our management team is unable to make the best decisions to improve on the issues. -- Turnover is NOT crazy high and it's in the very low single digits. -- You mentioned a few times about how your family emergency didn't allow you to handle your responsibilities but I wonder if you know how many thousands or more of our users and clients were without service and the negative impact financially and or lost respect or opportunity from our stakeholders of your failure to text, call or email if you were unable to report for work or unable to handle whatever was needed during your on-call duty time? I and we get it... unexpected things come up and you're unable to do your duty, even when we are counting on you. We needed to be able to trust that no-matter-what, you'd either solve the problem while you're on-call or you'd text, call or email your immediate supervisor so they or someone else can attempt to solve the problem before it becomes an even larger issue. No one expects you to ignore your family in a crisis but we needed to be able to trust that if you can't perform the duties, that you'd notify us so that we can let the next person in the escalation procedure to attempt to handle the issue. -- I'm sorry it didn't work out and I wish you the best in your career endeavors.

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5,0
8. Feb. 2016
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Pros

I don't understand why there are so many negative reviews for this company. My experience here as been very good. The work environment is comfortable and feels like home, the work is very self motivated and satisfying, the pay is fair and the benefits are good, and the culture is very friendly and family like. All the amenities in the office are very very nice. You're not going to find many other places like this in the fox valley. Free lunch, access to gym, showers, underground parking, and other unnecessary but nice perks are great. It's also been a great experience working and learning about so many different programs and products. The job doesn't get into a rut like many other development jobs I've worked. I do different interesting things on a daily basis and rarely get bored.

Kontras

I personally have nothing negative to say but if you prefer more structured work where you're told exactly what to do every step of the way then a job at Sparknet might not be for you.

2,0
15. Nov. 2013
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Pros

Everything looks great at Sparknet but the only real pros are free lunch, coworkers and being on third floor with distractions like games and a view.

Kontras

Pay is very minimal and real promotions only happen to spouses or good friends of “management” -and you have to be willing to suck up and be energetic about a company that doesn't have a strong stake in any certain industry anymore. Everything is transparent but the team leads think if they whisper to one person at a time no one will be the wiser. The team leaders are on power trips and don't respect the people actually working in their departments. There is a lot of micro management about time happening on their parts but lots of personal activities during work hours happening on their parts. They should be holding themselves to the same standards they hold their employees.

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Reaktion von SparkNET Interactive
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We don't micro-manage or at least no one here in management has a goal to micro-manage anything. We hire and train great people, give them tools to do their job and then do our best to get out of the way. I will admit that we are a very data-decision-driven company and we love data... and this can be wrongly interpreted as micro-management, but if we don't know how much time critical activities take, how can we ever seek to improve our performance or troubleshoot problems before our customers, members or users identify them? If you feel disrespected by your team lead, then please see your direct supervisors manager or contact our HR person for assistance so that we can hear your side of the story. ---- No one in SparkNET leadership or myself have ever encouraged our team members to submit fake reviews of anything.
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