It was hard to know what to make of this place other than it’s very dysfunctional. I guess there were red flags early on. The recruiter I talked to was quite insulting over the phone. At that point, I didn’t expect to ever hear from them again. Apparently, after insulting me over the phone, he then called my previous employer and was told good things. Then he suddenly calls me back and wants me to interview.
I took the in-person interview and was offered the job.
On my first day, I asked about the lack of sick days but was told that it keeps people from faking being sick. This should have been another red flag in the middle of a pandemic. Interestingly, most of the executives get to work remotely because of covid. Everyone else gets to work in the office.
The training was nearly non-existent. Most of it was done over the phone. I was told right away that much of the written training documentation was either out of date or incorrect. Some of it hadn’t been updated in years.
The systems and processes are pretty archaic. If you love trying to keep track of multiple Access files spread across multiple network drives, this might be the place for you. There was no content management system. Every process consisted of a bunch cobbled together Access databases and excel files. There were non-stop networking issues which equaled spending a lot of time glaring at your monitor.
The recruiter I talked to promised there would opportunities for overtime here. Most of the conversations I overheard were about this place running out of work.
It's worth noting that E91 is owned by Entegee, which in turn is owned by Adecco. Get it? Me neither.
The pay was okay. The benefits are terrible. The vacation time is a joke. The office is run down.
Nobody has laptops so don’t expect any flexibility in where you do your work.
The other oddity to me was the lack of female employees in this office. I believe there was just one working in the office. Nearly everyone else you will encounter is a socially inept white male.