SME for E-Learning - Subject Matter Expert (SME) SPi Global Employee Review

Its nice work place to work with

Career growth is what its lacking

Love my colleagues: young, smart, hip - actually look forward to going to the office to see them.

A VP, explaining why the company does not give raises, said that it is not SPi's business model to invest in employees. They prefer a revolving door: bring you in, usually via a temp agency, pay you squat, extract what they can, piling on work and responsibility with no reward or recognition, idly watch you get fed up and leave, then call the temp agency and order another sucker. They're just now learning the price of letting all that institutional knowledge walk out the door: it may shut down their North American operations. North American executives and managers have no - I repeat, no - discretionary budgetary authority. They cannot spend a nickel without Chennai's say-so, and are powerless to adjust salaries, hire personnel, or to invest in sorely needed tools and infrastructure. SPi advertises itself as a technology company, yet runs its business off of Google Docs: a self-proclaimed data-driven company that won't invest in real databases. The list goes on...