Some good, some bad - growing pains - IT Director Equian Employee Review

3.0
28 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are lots of great people there across IT, dev, and operations. People who care about their jobs, their co workers, and their clients. Growth - there were something like 4 or 5 acquisitions in the past two years on top of solid organic growth. Leadership says a lot of the right things. Compensation was decent; benefits pretty good.

Cons

Equian is a conglomeration of many mergers and acquisitions so there is no one single culture. Each product line, which is generally equivalent to some company that was bought along the way, usually has its own culture and style. The contributes to a chaotic environment. Company has not done a good job of integrating all the acquisitions especially from a technology standpoint. Consolidating key tech platforms is costly, complex, and time consuming and a lot of the leadership does not seem to get that. Certain teams are really overworked. You have some groups that have good work/life balance working ~40 hours a week, and others who are routinely working 60+ hours, weekends, overnights, particularly in IT operations. The chaos and disparate working environments has led to a lot of turnover in certain departments. In the span of a year or so IT probably had 15% turnover with many strong and talented people leaving. There are managers in the org that are not great leaders and senior management does not seem to pay attention. Lack of transparency and communication on company performance. Most of what is shared is somewhat nebulous perhaps since they are a privately held company they don't want too much financial details floating around.

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Equian Response
7y
Thank you for your review. Equian has admittedly been in a high growth mode through mergers and acquisitions for the past few years. Although this creates exciting new opportunities for us in the marketplace, it is not without hiccups as we look at integration of new sites during a fast paced season. We are truly appreciative for all that our hardworking and dedicated staff do to ensure our success, and the flexibility they exhibit to move Equian forward.

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