Faction Reviews

3.4

65% would recommend to a friend

(28 total reviews)
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Sean Charnock

83% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Faction has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 28 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Faction employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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28 reviews
1.0
29 Mar 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

No discipline structure; If you can play politics, you'll never have to work! Work beyond advertised hours; NOC employees can expect unsupported and unassisted 12-hour+ shifts, 4 days a week (advertised as 10), and senior teams have the option to accept your emergency escalations! Alcoholic beverage consumption is scheduled and encouraged during business hours, officially AND off the books!

Cons

Management are much more concerned with KPIs than keeping employees; have grossly underpaid their best talent such that the best employees leave rapidly. Documentation is laughably incomplete and is avoided by all employees and silenced by managers. Pay is grossly out of balance with workloads; core IT staff are embarrassingly underpaid and this company falsely titles employees as "engineer" to avoid paying overtime, when after starting it's sprung on them that they are REQUIRED to work 10+ hours a week overtime. While sales persons are not required to work even full weeks and collect all bonuses available. After-hours support is non-existent; least experienced employee is stuck on night shift with less than a week of training.

1.0
16 Jan 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pretty decent office. Easy to talk to people in the company since it is small. You can have an impact because it is small. Interesting technology that is behind the scenes which greatly interests me. Lots to learn here.

Cons

The management team hires people to help provide expertise. Then, when those new people have ideas different than the pre-existing ideas of management, those people are forced out. It seems that they only want people that back their already existing ideas of where they want to go or how to do things. If you have any kind of criticism at all, then you aren't viewed as a team player and once again, you are shown the door. Communication is never straight forward. Everything has to be read between the lines and you have to think to yourself "What are they really trying to say here?" It would be a lot better if they were direct and to the point instead of beating around the bush. Also, Sales is the most important team within the company.

1.0
25 Feb 2019

Don't Get Fooled

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Innovation and patents speak for themselves.

Cons

Culture borderlines toxic, especially if you are not political. People get promoted here based on the boys club and not their talent, so there are a lot of arrogant under-skilled managers who are protected. I cannot recommend this company to any colleagues. Beware!

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