Great learning experience, horrid company - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij StarTech Computing

Small company with friendly employees. The owners know you and your family and care about your well being. Great place to get experience with all kinds of technology. They will help you get certifications, and allow you to learn new technologies. If you are a self starter this is a great place to work, while there are basic StarTech standards that need to be used with the clients you are still free to come up with custom solutions for your clients problems. The benefits are adequate, but it is a small company so they can't match the top of the line benefits of larger companies. The owners do listen to employee suggestions but again being a small company they can't implement everything and changes can take some time. Many of my ideas were implemented and my suggestions were always welcomed. They have company events like cook outs in the summer and a nice Christmas party. I worked at StarTech for over 17 1/2 years (about 1/3 of my working career), I really liked working for StarTech.

The pay and benefits are a little lower than bigger companies but the small company feel and the of the owners and coworkers was worth more to me than a top dollar salary where I was just a number instead of a member of the team. Most days you work regular hours but like all IT jobs there is some after hours and weekend work.

The owners have a pretty good handle on how to manage their staff. I was able to do pretty much anything needed to get my consulting career going. Scheduling my time was pretty easy through a scheduler. I had plenty of work due to the legwork that I did to make sure I was not going to loose out and get laid off.

The owners are a bit gun-shy on going after customers. There really is no competent sales staff that could keep the business flowing. Even though the owners asked our opinions on what we could do to increase revenue in the 2 additional years that I was there none of the ideas that came out at our meeting were implemented and they wondered why they were still in the same situation financially. When asked to have an increase in wage because I went from bottom consultant to in the top 3 I was told he couldn't afford that.