Nationwide Reviews
Updated Feb 9, 2012 – Reviews are posted anonymously by employees.
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Company Rating Based on 237 ratings Employees say it's "OK" |
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Pros
Overall A good company to work for. Good medical benefits, paid off days. Good and heathy work environment and policies.
Cons
Very process driven and hence sometimes it takes too long to get something small done. Changes in the organization has been more frequent.
Advice to Senior Management
Management is going a good job and leading the company well. They can give out good options like earlier for Work life balance.
Pros
The benefits were awesome here and you can do pretty much whatever you want, be 30 minutes late, take 1-130min lunches, do crappy work, you will never get fired or reprimanded. If you are a floater that just sleeps at their desk all day and has no desire to do anything then work here.
Cons
They have no idea how and they don't care to keep any talent. They are an extremely liberal company and they promote a lot of events and that constantly raise eyebrows. The money sucks although "they have been looking at the models" forever to be more competitive. They are cheap and this is the main reason why people are leaving. Lately however, they have been leaving b/c they have 0 job security. NW has closed offices all around GA and GA is next
Advice to Senior Management
quit being so cheap, pay people fairly and promote them fairly. don't try to tell them that a promotion is not a promotion and therefore they will not be making more money.
Pros
Separated Engineering/Support/Provisioning roles helps work life balance
Great Culture
Job Security
Cons
Pay was a little lower than average
Advice to Senior Management
None
Pros
Co-workers are good people and mostly good to work with
Cons
Management doesn't listen to employees. Manager's indirectly asked us for 5's on engagement to avoid having to have painful meetings on how to improve engagement. They just want to look good, they have no interest in actually earning a 5.
Advice to Senior Management
Empathize with your employees, see, what they are saying, don't ask them to lie in order to promote your own little agendas.
Pros
The company is fair and i feel my leadership is very good at communicating and giving feedback, both good and bad.
Good pay i think
Cons
Not too many. The senior mgmt tries to keep everyone informed by email, video conf, webex and teleconference.
feedback is welcomed.
Advice to Senior Management
I am not sure how to respond to this. I feel that leadership here is better then jobs i have had in the past.
Pros
nice benefits, good people to work with
Cons
long hours, hard to get time off
Advice to Senior Management
pay attention to employees feedback
Pros
- nice people
- in general most people work a short work week
Cons
- senior leadership is incompetent and ineffective
- lack of motivation of majority of staff makes it frustrating for someone who wants to really make a difference and work hard
- attempt to do a little bit of everything, but nothing well -- and no one cares that we don't ever realize the business case of projects we implement
Advice to Senior Management
identify the critical few things that will really make a difference to the company and hit those out of the ballpark.
Pros
Good pay. Good benefits. People try hard and for the most part like their jobs. Nice for a corporate environment.
Cons
Terrible amount of "politics". Too many people, especially management, that take your ideas and use them as their own. Hard work is only encouraged and rewarded by the few hard working managers there.
Advice to Senior Management
Please stop all the corporate "therapy" sessions. Too many "how are you feeling" surveys. Some people just want to come to work, do their job, and go home. Management tries too hard to read into all the info coming back from these surveys......many of which unfortunately read the numbers wrong and begin pushing good employees past the breaking point.
Pros
Great work/life balance, easy going company culture, respect hard work and intelligence, traditional company values, slow and steady without reacting to each market blip, 401K and pension retirement benefits
Cons
Lack of employee accountability including management, questionable hires cause department issues/drama, pay is below industry standard, health benefits are extremely expensive
Advice to Senior Management
Take managers and associates that are under-performing to task. Without accountability the entire organization suffers.
Pros
Benefits, Educational Reimbursement, professional development opportunties, many locations to work/live, community involvement, 401k matching, pension, paid licensing
Cons
Its hard to get past the initial entry level jobs, normal amount of business politics to deal with
Advice to Senior Management
Work more on developing the low level employees, we are losing out on leaders because we are not helping them develop and keeping them engaged.



