Insight Reviews

I have been working at Insight

Pros – Its a big company. Lot of opportunities.

Cons – Identifying and promoting process is slow.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize the talent and bring them up quickly.

I have been working at Insight

Pros – Good team. Everyone is very straight forward with one another. Leadership in Montreal office on US side is first rate.

Cons – Support roles have no advancement options. Minimal training. Compensation is well below market average.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend some time in the Montreal office and observe how we operate. Assign some leadership in the support roles so that the support roles can be integrated more strategically with the sales teams.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Insight

Pros – Reconized as being a good VAR
Good overall package
Work hours matches every other competitor
Tends to leave you alone to work, this is a great job if you are a contractor (Temp)

Cons – Constantly reorganizing
Handing out promotions to those that have no clue
No clear direction
No growth potential within the company or training to get the next job within the company

Advice to Senior Management – Find out who can help keep your customers, currently there are too many in the wrong positions pushing your customers out the door.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Insight

Pros – People and pay are the only pros I can think of.

Cons – One of the most fragmented businesses I've ever been exposed to. Most service delivery managers are clueless (literally). Company promotes incompetence over and over again. Upper management not in touch with those who make a difference. The previous post about a "me too" services organization is so true.

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

I have been working at Insight

Pros – Flexible working schedules, great PTO structure, decent pay, nice friendly working environment. We enjoy some of the perks of working in a building that was built in the tech hay day, however cut backs within the company are making them fewer and far between.

Cons – No real advancement opportunities. Being in the IT industry, they have their wallets under lock and key. Downsizing and controlling costs are the #1 priorities. Expect to keep your job if you're competent and do what is asking, just don't expect to advance as a result of hard work

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your employees. Its sometimes easy to forget who works their butts off to earn you your profits, and while you're spending money on new company acquisitions, and upper management summit retreats, try not to forget the employees that made it all possible.

I have been working at Insight

Pros – Insight is committed to growth and well defined goals. The senior leadership team is aligned and many positive changes have occurred over the last two years. Insight is an outstanding company for investing your career and for those that have a great work ethic and are committed to company values, career advancement is readily available.

Cons – Insight is re-building its reputation and sometimes run into old thinking and perceptions about the new company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Insight

Pros – - Nice building
- Co workers are friendly
- Pay is ok

Cons – - Militant
- Micro Managed
- Sales training inadequate
- They use people as pons and work you like a donkey
- management is incompetent

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees better, they work very hard and lets face it, the managers are incompetent with no leadership skills. The turnover rate is unreal this should be a red flag, stop playing roulette with employees.
p.s. I Resign!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Insight

Pros – Best in class VAR
Strong Growth
Predictable Business

Cons – Professional Services is subpar
Constant turnover
Constant leadership change
Inadequate market comparison salary
No training opportunities
Sales teams are no disciplined or trained (Wild West mentality)

Advice to Senior Management – Improve your benefits package
Improve compensation for professional services (or you will always have turnover)
Train middle management to be actual managers with proper management education and training
Stop making organization changes and alignments every year like clock work

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Insight

Pros – -Flexible and friendly environment with great co workers
-Easy going life
-New technologies introduced so might be able to learn a lot
-"Cow boy" style coding.

Cons – -No Documentation at all, so if you are ready to figure out everything from project setup, configuration requirement and the project technical setup all by your self with out any help, than you should be able to live there
-Company is made up of many take overs so there may be lot of communication gap between different taken over teams and many managers so sometime its difficult to manage fund for them
-Unable to retain employees sometimes so high attrition rate for senior positions

Advice to Senior Management – -Should learn to follow proper and transparent procedures and business model so that resources and projects are well managed

I worked at Insight

Pros – Worked with a lot of good people. The Company had a pretty good coworker develepment program and people. had fun

Cons – Thought the executive team did a poor job leading the company during a tough economic time. They were 2-3 steps behind competition

Advice to Senior Management – my advice to management would be to focus on retaining key employees. There was very little effort in retaining key employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend