Incompetency runs amuck at Guidehouse - Senior Software Engineer Guidehouse Employee Review

1.0
7 Dec 2022
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Pros

40 work week - that's only pro I can think of

Cons

The incompetency of this company is mind blowing. I quit after 11 weeks because every step had issues. Here's a few of the lowlights. They told me I had the wrong start date (after I had already attended orientation), took 6 weeks to get a laptop (including them sending it half way across the country to the wrong person, sending it to me with no power cable, twice failing to get me the power cable on subsequent tries, and my login ID card not being set up properly), being berated at a family-attended company picnic by an executive for not going into the office (I was told my job was fully remote), not get paid the full amount of my final paycheck, and finally, receiving a random check 2 months later for no reason other than more incompetency from the company. I literally did no work for the company because the mangers were so disorganized that they couldn't figure out what to have me work on. I asked numerous times and got nothing. Pay was terrible to boot.

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Cons

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Pros

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