Lots of potential ruined by management. - Anonymous employee Fulcrum IT Employee Review

2.0
17 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fulcrum has some very smart and capable people who truly care about the products and services they provide. The work itself can be rewarding and challenging. Work/life balance is good for some. Decent wages and benefits. Potential for advancement for the ambitious, depending on position. Not at all a bad place to start if you need a job.

Cons

Management is some of the worst I have ever encountered. There are a few management cliques full of incompetent people with poor management skills that stay in power through mutual support of each other, rather than any employees. The company on the whole has very poor understanding of personnel management and the value of expertise. Expect to be demeaned, disrespected, and blatantly lied to while management quite literally cackles about it. I wish this were sour grapes, I really do, for the sake of the remaining employees, but it really is that bad. Those smart and capable people? There used to be a LOT of those, but have been driven away over time, with more likely to follow. Clients have also started to take notice, and Fulcrum has lost a number of important contracts, and is very likely to lose more, so I would not put too much faith in any job you take with this company lasting for a long time. They have engaged in pretty questionable billing practices as well, so even if management doesn't run the company into the ground, the government may take notice of that and shut them down anyway. Some positions regularly put in lots of overtime with little or no compensation, or sign that management notices, cares, or plans to correct the situation by hiring more people or improving process. I really don't know if management just that unaware of what they have done, or doesn't care, but the effect is the same.

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Cons

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Cons

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