Digital Realty Reviews

Pros

Expanding, profit making company.
Eveyone is made to feel import, has an important contribution to make.
Top management exposure to your work; top management consults those on the lower end of the chain.

Cons

Company very US / UK oriented.
Key functions operated out of the US by managers without international exposure.
Lots of US staff running micro-process distract from work in the field where staff is thin.

Advice to Senior Management

Shift major operations to Europe and not only to the UK.
Continue to focus on the core business.
Develop strategic vendor relationships.

Pros

- good compensation (I guess it's the only pros)

Cons

- no career development opportunities (even when question asked, answers from management are blurry and unclear)
- no space to grow
- wasted talent inside a team
- permanent rumbling about communication improvement in a team without any actions taken to make any improvement
- poor information exchange between members of a team (if any)

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how to use talented people. Less slogans more reasonable arguments.

Pros

Location is easy to get to only off the highway, but don't plan on leaving for lunch breaks or errands with the way the roads are situated to get around and the way traffic is, and there are always accidents and construction making it harder.

Cons

Be wary about working and doing business within the Needham, MA location - Property Management is young and not easy to work with and is very impersonal, condescending and even pretentious, and does not treat people as if they are human, and this is even expressed openly to us by their colleagues. They pride themselves on customer service, but when a client makes a request, they put their needs over the client first, and always with a fake smile with an attitude that we are bothering them and they're just too busy to help. Quite unprofessional.

Advice to Senior Management

They should take a course on customer service and client relations. Greeting with a smile would even go a long way since they often look stressed and disgruntled walking into the office and sets the tone for the entire day.