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SparkNET Interactive Network Engineer reviews

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Christopher Knight

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24 Aug 2012
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Pros

- You get to work with some bleeding edge technology, big data sets and highly available solutions. - Company provided equipment such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops. - You are usually given what you need to do your job without having to go through lengthy ROI/Budgeting processes. See above. - If you are in IT you are protected/exempted from a lot of the rules and policies imposed on the rest of the company, like Marketing or Editorial. - Company provided benefits and fully vested 401k.

Cons

- Company pays below average wage for job when compared to other companies in the area. - Senior management is always trying to find ways to dislike someone there and once they are to that point, there is no point arguing with them about it because the only answer they will accept is their resignation or termination. - Negativity runs rampant in this company's culture. - The negativity causes employees that share a similar rank in the company to be continuously at each others' throats to contend for top spot with management. - Micromanagement runs rampant everywhere by senior management, even in areas where they have no expertise in or understanding of. - Favoritism of IT leads to poor social interaction between IT and the rest of the company which furthers some of the company's negative culture issues. - If you are in an on-call role and you have a family emergency, don't expect any forgiveness for not keeping in touch if you are contacted and forget to "check in."

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SparkNET Interactive Response
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It's not true that Senior Management is always trying to dislike someone here. That makes no sense. While I'm sorry you felt that way, it's only in our leadership teams' best interest to find ways to maintain and increase a positive rapport with our team members. -- Negativity does not run rampant. -- What you call "Micromanagement" --> you may have not liked how much accountability we aim to understand from every role within the company because if we don't have information about certain activities, our management team is unable to make the best decisions to improve on the issues. -- Turnover is NOT crazy high and it's in the very low single digits. -- You mentioned a few times about how your family emergency didn't allow you to handle your responsibilities but I wonder if you know how many thousands or more of our users and clients were without service and the negative impact financially and or lost respect or opportunity from our stakeholders of your failure to text, call or email if you were unable to report for work or unable to handle whatever was needed during your on-call duty time? I and we get it... unexpected things come up and you're unable to do your duty, even when we are counting on you. We needed to be able to trust that no-matter-what, you'd either solve the problem while you're on-call or you'd text, call or email your immediate supervisor so they or someone else can attempt to solve the problem before it becomes an even larger issue. No one expects you to ignore your family in a crisis but we needed to be able to trust that if you can't perform the duties, that you'd notify us so that we can let the next person in the escalation procedure to attempt to handle the issue. -- I'm sorry it didn't work out and I wish you the best in your career endeavors.

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