ASI System Integration Reviews

Current Employee – been working at ASI System Integration full-time for more than a year

Pros – not really sure if there are many pros for a new employee

Cons – lack of pre sales support

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ASI System Integration full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good certification path, easy, and that is it.

Cons – very low wage, bad management, bad example of a minority owned company.

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in new management. Very unprofessional.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at ASI System Integration full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – *People with the same pay grade and in the same boat are great people.

Also the job itself is great. you learn a lot on the job. Great for beginning technicians to learn.

You meet new people at the client sites and they become familiar faces. You also get to work alongside other companies like integrators and box pick up company, some of which are good people.

Also reimbursement for metrocard and mileage, and part of cell phone bill.

Cons – Management is horrible... I repeat, horrible!

Some get a little status and abuse their position. They use double talk and semantics to make you out to look like the bad guy each and every time.

Some men, managers and techs alike, sexually harrass the women techs. If you bring it up to management, you tell them what happened, and they tell you that they will "speak" to the other person, yet the person is still there. They give you NO update on what is being done to rectify the situation. It's almost like they sweep it under the rug and be done with it, and go on with making money. Some men also make the women feel like they can't do certain things on the job because theyre women. (COMMON sense: The women would not have made a personal choice to be there if they couldnt handle the job.).

If certain dispatchers have issues with you (without having even met you might I add, since you dont see them face to face until later), They will place you on sites where you have to travel for hours from home and if there are any issues, you are at fault. (Double talk and Semantics again.)

The scheduling is horrible. they send you to the bronx if you live in staten island.

The pay is horrible, yet they expect you to pay large amounts of money to progress with the company (progression is DEFINITELY not a guarantee.) 250 dollars for required tools, 300 dollars for certifications, 100 dollars for vendor certifications, each certification.

If managers have a personal issue with you, they dont let you know. they just take it out on you by telling you there's no work when there is tons of work, talking about you behind your back, setting you up to fail, and not even speaking to you, not even saying good morning or anything when you or they enter a room. They will take it out on you and then bury it under paperwork, and the handbooks and double talk and semantics and make you look like the bad guy.

Management sticks together, they have the same personalities and attitude. All they care about is saving money which means the people at the bottom pay for it the most. Unfortunately, these are the ones who are doing the most work.

Promotion is "merit based" supposedly, but it is also about who sticks the closest to the manager and bashes the other techs behind their backs.

You do NOT hear about any good reviews from the client. There are people who get glowing reviews and the client loves their work, and you dont hear about it at all. you only hear when something is wrong. As a matter of fact, if the managers dont think youre important, they wont speak to you.

There is seperation between boroughs. Like the managers of each borough are competing. this is not good at all. There also used to be big meetings with everyone, and we would all be kept abreast of everything going on. This has ended, creating even more seperation.

Most of the Techs want to leave and dont like working for the company. but they stay because of the pros listed above.

They are paying minimum wage, and expect to get six figure results and it doesnt work that way. They justify this horrible behavior by giving us access to get vendor specific certifications, which we can get elsewhere and dont mean much at any other comany except the vendors' companies.

There is a LOT of corruption at this company, but its very hidden. If you ask upper management, they will say they have never heard of any of these things ( hence the AWESOME reviews from "payroll managers" and "senior this and senior that" theyre the ones making money)
This is because lower managers in the middle "handle" the situation and bury it so it's never heard of again.... i.e. sexual harrassment.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more money!! we have rent to pay. Bills. You ask everything of us and will probably be just fine with your employees not having a place to live as long as we are making money for your company. It's NOT fair!

Hire managers who know now to handle their status, and not abuse it.

Fire all your senior this, and lead that, and all these other levels of management, it makes no sense. Too much confusion, too many good people throwing each other under the bus just to please the person in the next highest position. Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.

You enforce your rules that are in place for sexual harrassment between our company and the clients you deal with, but do nothing about sexual harrassment that is happening internally.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at ASI System Integration full-time for more than a year

Pros – You get your foot in the industry.

Cons – Everything else is bad with this company. The grunts, the people who do the actual labor, get treated poorly, with below industry standard wages, and too much work to do. Health coverage is unaffordable at the rates salaries paid. It's a disgusting mentality that starts from the top down, without naming names.
This company makes a lot of money from contracts, getting paid by the company they are servicing, AND the vendors which they represent, yet the payouts to the actual workers is ridiculously low.
They call mandatory meetings after work hours, which we are NOT paid, with no regards to family obligations.
Most technicians end up leaving the company after a while, they could make twice as much money elsewhere.
From what I've seen, if you "kiss up" to the right people, you'll move up. Otherwise, your title and responsibilities will increase, but your salary won't.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees like people, not expendable contractors. Maybe then they will have loyalty instead of using the skills they learned and bring them to your competitors. Just a thought.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ASI System Integration

Pros – At first they make you feel valued and important.
At first they tell you how professional the company is.
At first they offer you a company that your proud to work for.

Cons – They knock you down constantly. When I worked there I was a great employee until they worked me until I couldn't see the screen any longer. There is no overtime pay for employees in the office unless approved and you aren't allowed to leave until they say so or your fired. They are running a concentration camp. I honestly felt like a slave. All the other employees in the office felt the same way and never wanted to speak up. I feel sorry for the people working there under such poor management.

Advice to Senior Management – Well I think you all should be fired so that the owners of the company can find professional people with educations to take over. There were few managers I actually liked and I mean few. Seriously there is no communication among management. The company has potential to be so much more but stop giving your friends promotions. It's not helping your company grow.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ASI System Integration

Pros – -good place to jump start a career
-they throw you into the fire, you cant do anything but find a way to to end up learning that way
-will take risks on unknown employees
-they have good contracts because they are a minority-based company and by law have to.

Cons – -BAD management (not professional or intelligent whatsoever), disorganized,
-If youre hired for something..youll end up doing 1,000,000 other things such as running errands, delivering packages, and doing installs and moves.
-horrific pay! ASI should be ashamed that they pay their techs minimum wage..yes people thats right minimum wage in NYC for professional work, and then they wonder why nobody cares about their jobs here.
-HR is the worst in the business..loud, threatening, and not there to encourage employees.
-Missing reward system..an installer makes the same salary almost as a commercial technician so no real incentive to learn or try
-This company tries very hard to be professional but it's all just an act
-most employees cannot afford benefits
-ive seen how many were forced to quit and how good people were forced to make bad decisions
-current employees havent seen a raise in about 6 years!!!
-no real employee perks (management encouragement, free lunches, training materials, tools,)
- they do not give you computers or blackberry or 3G cards like 99% of companies do
-their real goal is to SAVE MONEY bottom line..they will cut costs at any effort to do that and I must say they succeed but at the rate that 0 employees there are happy
-ive been in the business a long time and ive never seen management behave they way the management here behaves. They are the only ones that stick around and it's obvious why

Advice to Senior Management – VALUE YOUR EMPLOYEES MORE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES BRINGING YOU $$$
PAY MORE ITS NOT FAIR TO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT EVERY FINANCIAL MOVE YOU MAKE WHILE WORKING FULL TIME IN NYC
HIRE MANAGERS WHO ARE HERE TO HELP YOU NOT BERATE AND THREATEN
GAIN SOME RESPECT

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ASI System Integration

Pros – - They do not Micro Manage
- You build a book of business, you own it
- Has some big accounts

Cons – - No Direciton or support
- Behind industry trends
- below salary offerings
- you compete with your senior managment

Advice to Senior Management – Build an infrastructure within your management team for support

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at ASI System Integration

Pros – Good reasons to work here? It's a good stepping stone for techs looking for professional experience but don't stay too long.

Cons – -No raises/bonuses
-Stagnant, low pay
-Pay is too low to provide opportunity to have health and other benefits
-No growth opportunities - you will be there for 2,5,10,20 years doing the same thing at the same pay as when you started

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at ASI System Integration

Pros – There really are none that are great. except as a startup company

Cons – Very inefficient and really just a "stepping-stone" of a company. Management are completely unprofessional. CEO pays employees like its India - its NYC buddy - not india!

Advice to Senior Management – FIRE all current management and replace with new individuals/

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend