ION Geophysical Reviews

Pros

I loved working here.
Smart people, exciting work, lots of moving pieces, lots of responsibility, over all great place to work.

Cons

Corporate communications could be better. When I was there it was handled by the external marketing group. Management's message to the employees was not always handled in the most expert way or in the most timely fashion. But still would recommend this place overall.

Pros

Don't have to work very hard.
Nice HQ office.
Attractive staff.
Free soda.
Covered parking (unless your late).
Strong strategic partner (Chinese oil co).

Cons

Very limited opportunities for career advancement.
CEO nearing retirement with no obvious successors, likely means company is sold.
Lots of defections at all levels.
Weak leaders/poor communicators in senior exec positions.
Reputation of many product lines has really suffered.
CEO and CFO horde the bonus's and stock.

Advice to Senior Management

Probably best to sell the company now before any more people leave and before the product lines are'nt wanted by anyone.

Pros

Having no other place to work is the best reason to work at ION-GXT cairo center
No much stress , an easy going environment

Cons

very poor salary as a start comparing to competitive companies
very low chances of training , just on job training is offered
no experienced people to learn from
no appreciation for good work , unfair appraisal
not a good place for experienced people
very poor management and admin

Advice to Senior Management

pay some attention to people working at Cairo office specially the less experienced staff

Pros

Very good working place, flexible working hour, excellent bonus incentive if you do a good job,
friendly coworkers

Cons

less training, less promotion, more accountability is needed

Pros

Great benefits, competitive pay, good work life balance

Cons

Too much focus placed on repairing products for free in lieu of seeking opportunities to increase revenues, improve quality control and inventory management.

Advice to Senior Management

Be willing to invest more into the engineering and development of innovative products that are reliable, and require less repair/rework. Create a warranty repair that will provide opportunity for revenue, and improve the depot repair and inventory management process.

Pros

The main reason I continue to work here is the people I work with. The flexible working hours and expected self management of employees is a plus.

Cons

Thereis very much a have vs the have nots attitude between the execuctive managers and the lower level line employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Communication is the key. Our management does this, but only in spurts. Some of the financial decisions don't make much sense--but perhaps that's just because we haven't been given the real reason.

Pros

Great place to work. Great coworkers. If you ever run into problems at work, there's always someone there to share their experiences with you and help solve what ever problems you have. You get to travel to great places, meet new people and rack up a lot of air miles .

Cons

You have to learn quick because you could find your self on a plane to tibet within moments after your interview. Customer (people you support) depend on the system to remain in production mode when needed so down time is money lost. You have to know your stuff before you get out there.

Advice to Senior Management

Its important to seek insight from all employees. You could learn a lot from asking for feed back. Turn around time on repair should be better than currently handled. Besides that I think your doing a great job. Good luck.

Pros

Small company, decent salary, lots of work.

Cons

Disorganized leadership, inconsistent training opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

No real advice other than it would be great to provide better oversight and organization of the various departments. The "all-hands" meetings are informative.

Pros

Rapidly expending seismic technology company offering advancement potential in an industry that is already desperately short of people.
Great employee stock option program aimed at employee retention. Travel opportunities to ‘exotic’ locations. Good global support from offices as far West as Calgary and as far East as Beijing.
Great people at ION.

Cons

Although improving lately, thinking and employee programs are still very Houston-centric. Elitist travel policy ensures that the people that travel the most spend the most time being uncomfortable. Focus on VS and Firefly often gets in the way of opportunities for ‘legacy’ products.

Advice to Senior Management

Expand range of 'tools' in the ION toolkit and don't be so focused on VS / Firefly.