Intersections Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Intersections as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Colleagues are generally friendly and supportive

Cons – Need more cross functional team collaboration.

Former Employee – worked at Intersections

Pros – Potential to learn new technologies.
Decent commute.

Cons – Poor management and planning.
Unnecessary computer restrictions in terms of what you can and cant do, can and cant use.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop yelling "fire" for every project coming down the pipe. Communicate more effectively with your employee's in terms of what the project plans are. Hire good project managers. Ask your employee's what their input is or suggestion for choosing X over Y.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Intersections full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – good coworkers, mainly because management has a tendency to have favorite employees who get all the perks, everyone else (peons) have a common interest in that the management doesn't bother looking in their direction nor listen to their insights

Cons – management favoritism, secret meeting among manangement, not much room for advancement except for the favorite employees

Advice to Senior Management – Management needs to allow advancement amongst the department rather than single individuals, these individual gets more recognition and advancement in their career fields because you single them out and allow more exposure to technology. Everyone is only able to administrator their work rather than architect for the company

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Intersections full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – New technology for identity theft prevention.

Cons – Constant change in directions makes it hard to focus on one project and take it to completion.

Advice to Senior Management – Scrap outdated back end technology and spend money to re-design from scratch.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Intersections full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Potential for personal growth
-An intimate and close knit group of ppl
-Fast paced environment
-Huge learning curve

Cons – -Lack of process and system documentation
-If you're not a go-getter then you can get lost
-Too many moving parts can be overwhelming
-Business growth is lacking

Advice to Senior Management – -Some upper management have a hard time actually managing and maintaing project status.
-Too many individuals in top layer of management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Intersections

Pros – The compensation package is OK.

Cons – Rampant favoritism, witness many ethnic jokes/slurs among staff and management. even though workforce is very diverse. Very little communication between management and workers despite many meetings. Huge learning curve, similarly tasked departments feuding, very little patience or training from management. Secretive, distrustful culture; contractors treated as pariahs

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate to the plebians!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Intersections

Pros – Competitive pay, Good benefits and relaxed work culture

Cons – As any growing company, it lacks foresight and is constantly in fire fighting mode between business strategy and keeping competitive edge

Advice to Senior Management – Hear your worker bees and get some training for mid level management

Former Employee – worked at Intersections

Pros – Close to home, so no traffic issues.

Got to telecommute at times.

Less communication barriers when trying to acquire knowledge required for your day to day work.

Regular free food and useless parties.

Cons – Incompetent Managers let senior team members bully the junior ones.

Favoritism and lack of respect for hard workers.

Too many sources to be sought help from to accomplish even little.

Senior Management never bothered to talk to employees and there were no skip level meetings, even if they were held, just as a formality only.

Uneven distribution of workload and information hoarding issues.

Nobody cared about process improvement no matter how much a few tried hard.

Complete lack of respect and trust among team members, which the management never bothered to address.

The list just goes on...

Advice to Senior Management – It is silly to say, but please care about your employees!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Intersections

Pros – a lot of work at times and they can be quite over whelming but during this economy you can't complain.

Cons – top heavy. a lot of directors and manager that doesn't know how to manage or direct effectively. work during off hours.

Advice to Senior Management – bring the 401k matching back. stop giving us excuses of bad economy. it's been 2 years since it went away.

Current Employee – been working at Intersections

Pros – interesting sector of business with unlimited growth. casual work environment. good area for eating close by with access to the highways

Cons – double standards do exist here. Some people here can be very obnoxious no real fostering interactions with other depts at times

Advice to Senior Management – bring back matching 401ks, have team building exercises. show the employess you care by offering fun things to do in and out of the office