Captains of Choas - Software Engineer XO Communications Employee Review

Good work life balance and supportive

Improve technical knowledge and teamwork

- There are always opportunities to move around within the company if your job doesn't fit with your style. - There are some really great people who work there. - Lots of little perks like random days off, being allowed to leave early before holidays, options to telecommute, fun days like free movie days.

- There is sometimes somewhat of an adversarial attitude between departments. - Some of the managers can be unnecessarily negative and can spread a tense feeling throughout the office by their mere presence. - It can be hard to concentrate in a cubicle farm. Noise from people just doing their jobs carries from across the room. - The information systems are horrible, it is like trying to get water from a stone to get usable information out of some of the systems, often dealing with millions of dollars of revenue. - Management doesn't always listen to its analysts, who often have their ear to the ground and are immersed in the information they are supposed to be making their decisions on. - Management is often quick to pass the blame on when the consequences of their decisions turn negative, or even get the expected results, but expectations have shifted. - Computers are archaic, I don't know how they expect me to be an analyst with a computer that barely works and they have supposedly been upgrading the laptops for nearly a year and I have barely seen any evidence of it.