Dominion Enterprises Reviews

Pros

Good benefits, flexible schedule, all the free soda you could want, some of the other employees are really great to work with.

Cons

Management sucks in most departments. No kind of understanding from management about family emergencies. Forced to use vacation time to cover what should be personal time then they're counted as absences and used against you during your (ALWAYS LATE) review.

Pros

Not too stressful, nice building, alright people to work with, parking inside the building.

Cons

Senior management sometimes lacks true strategy, or does not have enough top-down direction. Sometimes we are left twiddling our thumbs.

Pros

They offer a good benefits package although it was better a few years back, and generally they don't abuse my personal time. At one point I could say I had good job security too, but with the amount of clients they have lost in recent times, I can no longer say that anymore.

Cons

I have worked many jobs over the course of my lifetime, but at each and every one of them I knew what I was supposed to be working on at any given time. When I started working for Dominion Enterprises, that changed. At any given time, I have each of my managers telling me that I need to be working on something different. When I finally sort out what I am supposed to be working on and begin progress, I am told to drop the project and work on something else. This is a never ending cycle and as a result nothing ever gets done and it reflects on me on my performance review even though I was only doing what management told me to.

All off our employees are overworked. The company was severely understaffed six months ago and several more employees have quit for another job or just because the job was not worth the stress level anymore since then. To make matters worse, they only hire once a year and last year, they only received one resume from a completely unqualified applicant.

Our software is old, poorly designed and running on cheap old hardware means that it may result in the end users waiting for hours for a rather simple task to complete that should take minutes. This is also a problem for developers. Management does not see the value in redesigning the system or investing in legitimate servers. Rather than viewing it as a necessary business expense, they view it as money thrown away even though it could improve productivity tenfold and keep the clientbase from all but disappearing.

Management is completely incompetent. They have no long term vision. If they make $20 tomorrow and lose $100 per day for the week after, they are happy. They allow salespeople to tell potential clients that we can do whatever they ask for even if it is outside of our business scope, and expect the developers to drop everything they are working on to make this happen. The ultimate irony is that the project that was dropped is usually a project for another client that was sold a product we do not offer in a similar fashion, who then cancels as a result.

In addition, there have been times that we have dropped everything including support for all our clients to accommodate requests for one client. One specific example led to a net loss of over one hundred clients!

Additionally, there is a lot of favoritism in all of the departments. If you are not one of the bosses favorites, you will not get a raise; you will get stuck doing work that nobody else wants to do, and in some cases they can't even hire somebody to do and keep them for more than three months.

Add to all of that being paid well below the industry average makes Dominion Enterprises one of the worst employers. The only reason that they are able to keep anyone for a decent amount of time is because they either hire people who can't get a job anywhere else due or because the office location is in an area that is so depressed that the only alternatives involve learning a trade or working a minimum wage job somewhere

Advice to Senior Management

If management was not so incompetent then working for Dominion Enterprises might not be bad at all, despite being underpaid. But the amount of unnecessary stress that management adds to their employees, and the fact that their fails fall on many of their employees despite the fact that management had told the employee not to perform the task makes most of their employees miserable.

Management has at least recognized that they have a problem, but they have not demonstrated that they know what it is. They have added fun team events such as cookouts and so forth. However, they have yet to act on improving the environment for their employees and stop making false promises to customers which only leads them to cancel and adds unnecessary stress on their employees.

Some new servers and direction into the future would be much welcomed!

Pros

Flexible schedule is the best Pro.

Cons

Low commission, Management doesn't listen to advice from the field,

Advice to Senior Management

It seems that when you see revenue go down by over 75% in the last 5 years it would be time to admit that some of the decisions were mistakes and start listening to the people in the field that have direct contact with our customers daily.

Pros

Most of my co-workers were good, hard-working people. Recently, the company has tried to improve morale with team-building events and free snacks/treats.

Cons

It seemed like every year the health insurance changed for the worse at a greater expense. I've never experienced a company change benefits to the detriment of the employees so frequently. The Human Resources department seems to be running the company...enforcing policies, disregarding procedures and managing people at their fancy. The majority of my colleagues (including myself) that left the company ended up with 50% - 100% salary increases with our new companies because Dominion Enterprise's salaries are so low.

Advice to Senior Management

Do a top-down reorganization of the Human Resources department and make them as accountable as they make the rest of the company currently. Find solid, cost-effective benefits and stick with them. Pay the employees what they are worth to cut down on your turn-over and improve morale.

Pros

Great work environment no micro management. Good compensation at first .

Cons

You have to play politics here or you will be burned .

Advice to Senior Management

No Favortism

Pros

Flexibility.
Decent management.
Nice environment.
Open door policy.

Cons

Low salary.
No room for growth.

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

Ive worked for a couple of their sites. Nice teams. Nice people.

Cons

low pay. bathrooms weren't that nice..

Advice to Senior Management

I enjoyed working with my management people.

Pros

Not as stressful as some corporations. Some people were great.

Cons

The most disqualified HR department that I've ever seen. If you weren't considered 'IN' you were treated with a low amount of respect and equality. The HR department 'picks and chooses' which policies they want to enforce depending on who you are. Senior Management gave the attitude that 'you work FOR me' instead of 'you work TOGETHER with me.' My best friend was fired for something they didn't do, and it came down to a 'he said she said' mentality.

Advice to Senior Management

Be fair. Take a good long look at the senior management in the Home Office, especially HR.

Pros

Extremely professional in the HR respect. With just shy of 300 companies they are huge but efficient. My severance package following termination was unexpectedly generous.

Cons

From my understanding, Dominion Enterprises likes to purchase companies with lower than average salaried employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Probably keep up the good work.