There are other startups out there... - Anonymous employee Faction Employee Review

2.0
31 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Onsite gym. Snacks. Flexible hours sometimes. At times, there is lunch provided. Free pluralsight account. there is the potential to get certifications.

Cons

There is no opportunity to grow. Faction will not provide you with resources or tools in order to succeed. Management doesn't engage in the Career success of their employees nor sets performance goals. Any conflicts you encounter, expect for them to not be resolved. The company allows unkind attitudes to take precedence over being professional. People have been written up without any coaching or constructive critism provided. As a tech company, documents are outdated. Support documents were created years ago and haven't been touched since. A lot of training and learning is based on your own interest to dive in, and figure things out alone. Some will withhold information that is valuable for you to do your job, the way the company expects, yet there are no documents. The company is ran as an 'every man for themselves'. If you find yourself trusting a coworker, more than likely they will be gossiping about you too. There is no culture unless you consider a pool table and a variety of beers as such. Get everything in writing because vocal agreements don't exist here. The energy in this company is usually negative and people tend to bring personal problems into work, enhancing the energy.

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5.0
25 Jun 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Really impressed with how the senior leadership team has responded during 2020-2021. They are transparent and have been understanding of all of the challenges people faced during that time. The flat org structure and startup-like feel mean lots of opportunities to work collaboratively and on new things.

Cons

Need to improve diversity and representation in senior levels of management.

4.0
8 Sept 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Small Company: Since the company is relatively small, you get a lot of opportunities to touch a wide range of technology fields across software solutions, compute, networking, and storage. A lot of hands on opportunities for experience across multiple brands in each field. Great Coworkers: The work environment has been an overall positive experience. Very few conflicts between coworkers in my tenure. Competent Staff: The staff hired has more generally been experts in their fields. They have been competent in their roles and responsibilities and are all extremely helpful.

Cons

Company Direction: The last several years, Faction has changed its IaaS mindset to a "Multi-Cloud" mindset as seen in their marketing materials. While this has broadened our marketability, they have locked into searching for only large deals and it is not sustainable. Leadership: Leadership has slowly changed over the years as well. They have not taken the opinions of their engineering staff into consideration anymore in their objective changes and it has caused some employees to leave as a direct and indirect result.

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