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Pros
-5% RRSP Contribution match -Great project experience -Flexible work hours
Cons
-Incredibly far behind the technology curve: a 'new to KGS' Microsoft Enterprise email server was finally implemented in March 2018. A base Microsoft Office installation is Office 2003. You have to jump through hoops to get anything more capable. Document templates are clunky and don't use Word's built-in features. The bare minimum software is purchased and only if it's required for a project, it will not be purchased in order to generally increase productivity. Telephones are 15 years old, printers are about the same. -Very little negotiation room for salary increases after initial hiring (Standard 2-3% given even after exceptional performance review and request for raise). Lower salary compared to peers at other companies. -Management is very unorganized and overworked, resulting in everything being last-minute and poor-quality. -Ideas for improvement are greeted with a 'that's a great idea' but are never acted on. -The amount of red tape one has to go around for simple procedural improvements is unbearable, resulting in multiple teams doing their own thing. -There is an attempt at a safety culture, but there is no good example set by management to really adopt it. The company does the bare minimum to get COR Certification and there isn't much effort put in past that.