Life at the Country Club has gotten hard with HDS Federal now competing for same piece of pie! - Systems Engineer ViON Employee Review

3.0
13 Mar 2014
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Pros

Awesome Training and Certification. Small company where the engineers contribute together. Easy going overall. Benefits are competive. Office has good layout in Herndon and theater area for presos. Paychecks on time.

Cons

Poor management execution, contribution, visions and communication. Also, after several years not sure where the company is going. It would appear that the company will be merging or will be sold. With HDS Federal eating the whole pie the value prop that ViON had is now over. The execution of new product lines has been embarassing, Until they get a true sales leader and sales folk that are more than order takers its hard to believe that they will sell EMC, Netapp, VI, or other products lines. They must have noticed a high percentage of the good engineers left.

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5.0
9 Feb 2024
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Pros

The 5 years I spent at ViON were the best of my professional career. The owners care about their employees and take great care of them. They empower you to take care of your customers.

Cons

None that I can think of.

3.0
28 Nov 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

No Sales Quotas. Free training but most you would never use there. Same for certifications payments. Average concise benefits. Free coffee in the cafe.

Cons

The annual bonus plan was significantly "misrepresented". Was told and have documented the bonus would be 20-30% of base pay. Well over 2.5 years guess what average 8% of base pay. Also, Vacation time will disappear with no warning if your not careful. Had the opportuntiy to work last Christmas and New years weeks for a RFP and could not take vacation. This resulted in two weeks of vacation time lost and they dont pay for that. Company has so many folks that been there for over 10/20 plus years that someone has to die or move away to get promoted. Managers/Vice Presidents seem to always go to trade shows every month in good locations while the pre sales guys get stuck in DC at FOSE, etc. VP of Engineering is agressive in his expections of selling and unrealistic in the execution and processes. Constant extra duty like uploading whitepapers to a file share run on third rate storage.

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