Expanding too quick - BI Engineer Shift4 Employee Review

1.0
26 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not many upsides. Salary marginal. Work life balance non-existent.

Cons

A difficult place to work with 60-hour weeks and low rewards for useful staff. Perversely there are a lot of passengers on the teams. No managers to be seen. Consequently staff in-fighting is endemic. If you like sick days you are in good company. Turn up and smile and do nothing and have a "1 day covid" every week and you will be fine. On the other hand - if you are useful there is a high chance you will be bled dry. The headcount is in flux due to recent mergers and acquisitions. Many new customers as well as new technologies and staff are being rammed into teams to accomodate rapid expansion. This is actually aggravating the growth issues. Teams are mostly very broken. 12 months ago it was still functional. Not any more. Avoid for now.

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Shift4 Response
1y
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