OEConnection Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Work Life Balance is good. NoGap between the Developers and the QA More Innovative products related to OEMs Continuous Learning is always there. No restrictions to implement our learnings.

Cons

Branding of the Company in chennai is less where ppl doesn't know the company and how big its products are.

Pros

Work life balance Flexible working hours Plenty of Leaves and Vacation

Cons

N o t h i n g m u c h

Pros

Work life balance. Good work culture

Cons

HR management is not upto the mark. Don't have lot of benefit for employee.

Pros

The best thing about working here is the relaxed culture. Work life balance is great. Flexible working arrangements and making the employees feel appreciated. Appreciation is something a lot of companies take for granted. Benefits and vacation package is very good. Company activities are very appreciated by members and families.

Cons

Senior Management can be out of touch. They say open doors. Challenge everything. But in reality - you know! Agile Methodology is good, but the main scrum master left (even though he was appreciated). Most IT people feel that if CTO focused more in the company and not on her career, bring smarter people than her and avoid her loud laughter and small talk and BS it would do the team good.

Pros

- Best group of people I've ever worked with. Hands down. - Solid benefits (PTO specifically) and the work/life balance was great. - Growth opportunities IF you put in the work. - Development and training opportunities IF you researched them and pursued them.

Cons

- lack of shared tribal knowledge was a concern. - lack of communication made things harder than they needed to be. - members of the organization that had bad attitudes and were critical of every decision made were a challenge. Lack of individual accountability played into this.

Pros

Good work/life balance, good benefits, 401K match up to 4%, a small percentage of profit sharing (nice, but nothing to get too excited about), tuition reimbursement, onsite fitness center, onsite cafeteria, flex-schedules, 4 weeks of PTO on day one. The people are great and it's a solid culture. They do fun themed days and events for employees and their families which is nice. It's a very family oriented company.

Cons

If you've been there a long time expect to see your pay start to slip in comparison to your market median. HR doesn't make sure that employee's salaries are reasonable, typically won't be addressed unless the employee or their manager makes a stink. A lot of people eventually leave because they start to lose money by staying.

Pros

Committed employees Products that creates value for customers Focused on continuous improvement Willingness to accept feedback and evaluate how/why we do things Sense of community and trying to give back Great benefits and work life balance Recognition for a job well done

Cons

Fast paced - sometimes we take action before we are 100% ready Continued need to focus on balancing new functionality with making what we currently have meet desired performance levels Need to mature international operations and systems to meet the needs of a growing company

Pros

4 weeks of PTO which you can "borrow" from at anytime during the year to use. 401K with matching. Gym on-site, health and fitness incentives as well. Standard Mon-Fri office hours, having weekends off depending on your department, is a good work-life balance.

Cons

Upward movement and growth depends on your direct supervisor and how much they like you, it is still your standard culture of "if the manager doesn't like you, it doesn't matter how hard you work, you won't get promoted". Workload can be extremely imbalanced depending on the team, and you can be one of the newer hires, but are expected to do more than the seasoned and more senior employees within your department. Should you express concern regarding your workload, your supervisor may not react favorably nor will they be willing to listen to your concerns and reasons for being worried. Sexual harassment is still very much a thing that needs to be addressed within the company. HR is more than willing to listen to your concerns and fears, but depending on the managers/supervisors, even if they agree that what you are saying is valid and true, oftentimes, nothing will be done to change the situation.

Pros

Senior Leadership is committed to making OEC a great place to work and there are many initiatives underway to address some of the issues being raised by employees. There is a focus on work-life balance and providing employees what they need to get their job done. The culture is one of collaboration with people focused on doing the right thing for the business. The people are great to work with and the company provides activities and perks to make work enjoyable. The organization truly cares about it employees!

Cons

The company moves very quickly and sometimes could benefit from slowing down.

Pros

There is a laid back atmosphere here, it's pretty nice. They offer to buy books related to your job, once a quarter, which is great. They are open to training, i.e. sending people to 5 day IT conferences or a training class. They seem to care about their impact on the environment but do not have dedicated people for that area. Instead, several employees participate on their environmental team in their free time (inside of work hours). I was started with 4 weeks of vacation and I use them! They are expanding the building to accommodate more growth. They encourage employees to participate in local tech opportunities, in a thinly veiled effort to market OEC as a competent player in the Cleveland tech market. I guess there's nothing wrong with that, which is why it's in the Pros column. However, there is much work to do, see the Cons. The office culture can be fun and energetic at times. There does seem to be a variety of different career opportunities within OEC, especially for those who are new to their field. There are engaging activities that bring fun into the workplace (i.e. design your own putt putt hole). Work life balance is fine. I work in IT so I certainly expect to perform maintenance after hours, but it is not excessive at OEC.

Cons

Many projects have unrealistic completion dates. Every IT project I've seen has taken far longer to complete, due to mismanagement of resources (including people) and a general sloppiness in execution. In many ways, their methods of performing certain tasks or daily processes reminds me of IT in the 90's: cobbled together with a minimal amount of customizations just "good enough"....and why? "because we've always done it that way" and, "it's still working, why change it?" Grrrr. So many, many single points of failure. And always a constant fear of the unknown (i.e. new tech, implementing new features , etc). Depending on the case, this either shows a lack of experience or the inability to test the new technology like other companies would. I suspect that OEC pays less than market salary for most IT positions, as I have heard others complain; however I am happy with my salary. It's clear that some employees are favorites with Sr Management. Not sure why. The IT teams are heavily fragmented and the lines for responsibilities are often blurry; you may need to work with several teams to accomplish a specific task that, in other companies about the same size could be done in a week with proper maintenance windows. There is an abundance of duplication, both in terms of personnel duties (jobs overlapping) and infrastructure (i.e. numerous storage arrays when one array would suffice). The general lack of foresight and planning in IT is appalling. It is hard to describe the miracles the business expects IT to do, but without the budget to support them. Numerous projects have been carried over year to year due to lack of money. I've heard they still backup to tapes, again another throwback to the 90s.