CIBER Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

CIBER is well positioned in the market because the company's rates are lower than top tier consulting firms, but the scope of projects they handle is the same.

Cons

Very decentralized. Weak marketing, resulting in minimal presence in customers' and prospects' awareness. Significant variations in quality among the branches and practice groups. Some are world-class, some are a joke. Senior management only watches the dollars. Sees little reason to invest in sales, internal training.

Advice to Senior Management

For long-term growth and stability, start looking at three issues: First, a more professional and consistent sales approach that is used throughout the company. You have some good teams, but the innovations they are making aren't being shared. Second, invest in marketing the firm. Few of our prospects have ever heard of CIBER. What kind of $2 billion company approaches the market in stealth mode? A cheap one, maybe? One that's being led by techies who don't understand the importance of good marketing. Third, invest in internal training and provide greater opportunities for lateral movement within the company. People feel stifled in terms of their career paths, because they tend to be pigeon-holed by technology area. Good people should be able to grow and evolve, even across geographic and practice lines.

Pros

Decent benefits, ESSP and PTO

Cons

No growth prospects. Incompetent middle management. No vision. CES division rife with favoritism.
Incompetent middle amnagement still there but good consultant's are all gone.

Advice to Senior Management

Change the middle management not the conultants. Re-evaluate the skillset of the middle management.

Pros

Professional people. Great projects. Good Benefits. CIBER is a not really a "project based" consulting company, but more like "I need someone good and potentially a few more people if it works out" type company. Very professional and well organized work environment. Full time salary and benefits.

Cons

They pay by salary (not by the hour) so they get much more of a "cut" than hourly consulting. Yet if there isn't coverage even for one day (in between projects) they will dock you for overhead and just cut you loose. This kind of lower salary usually comes with "bench time", but CIBER treats salaried people like hourly "easy to cut" people who usually can get way more per hour.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't tell consultants they are "full time, part of the family" at CIBER then just drop them when a client project ends. Stop misrepresenting hourly consulting as permanent work just to get more of the hourly rate. Talent will avoid you like the plague.

Pros

The people I specifically worked for treated me pretty well. I was there only a year, but overall I felt good working for CIBER. My bad experience was more with the clients they we did work for, who use CIBER as a way to dump work they can't do, do not want to do, or is too politically damaging and rather give it to CIBER to deal with. I see CIBER in the business of taking on "crap" companies are not willing to do.

Cons

There are 2 types of employees. Those that actually work for CIBER, and those that are brought in as "employees" and attached to a client contract, aka a "consultant". If you work internally for CIBER, you are safe. If you are a consultant, your doomed if the client ends a contract cause CIBER will dump you, after trying to find you work elsewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Not much to tell them. It's the nature of the contracting business.

Pros

Challenging project work and smart co-workers

Cons

Conflicts between management priorities and client priorities. Consultants told they owned projects when they did not and were not backup by management.

Advice to Senior Management

Be consistent, transparent, and make your priorities same as clients'.

Pros

Great people. Take their projects seriously. Lots of out sourcing jobs to make a sale on. Other develop of S A P and lots of room to grow with custom apps in the market. Really nice people in the office. Most people have been there a long time which shows you soemthing in itself. Can require a lot of travel in order to make the job and to get resource.

Cons

Long hours sometimes can make easy jobs hard.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire more developers