New World Systems Reviews

I have been working at New World Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits are Decent
Room to Grow you Career Upward
The People are Great
Compensation is Good

Cons – Limited Vacation Time Would be Good (takes time / seniority to gain more days off from initial 2 weeks)

Advice to Senior Management – Provide More Opportunity for Bonus Pay Based on Performance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at New World Systems full-time

Pros – Great benefit plans
2 weeks paid vacation
Opportunities to advance quickly

Cons – No flex time options available

Advice to Senior Management – Be more involved professionally with your team members.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at New World Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – Allow you to keep travel perks
Good about paying expenses

Cons – Lots of travel
Must wear a shirt and tie to office

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at New World Systems full-time for less than a year

Pros – Salary, & medical benefits are decent. Awesome holiday party.

Cons – Shirt & tie for work. Strict hours unless you want to work more. Staff is overloaded, under pressure, and highly stressed. Not many friendly people.

Advice to Senior Management – Be people driven, not numbers driven.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at New World Systems full-time for more than a year

Pros – * A lot of great people work here, ALL of which are at the very bottom of the food chain doing all of the work and be oppressed by a poor work environment, poor compensation and scare tactics
* I have heard from some that I've kept in contact with, that there have been some improvements geared toward improving morale, like flexible work hours and dress code (however, it would take drastic improvements to get to an industry standard)
* If you stay there for 10 years and work hard without asking questions. Eventually you might be rewarded with stock in the company and a position for which you are severely under-qualified and over-compensated.
* If you just want stablility.. you can work here forever. You can do this by performing at a very mediocre level, as long as you put in the number hours they want and DON'T question mgt

Cons – * Senior Mgt and Middle Mgt play a consistent game of good cop/bad cop.. where senior mgt constantly demands more of employees and middle mgt pretends that they are defending you like a union rep
* You can see from salary reviews that compensation is no where near competitive, and the bonus structure = every month they randomly select people to give a 200 gift card too (provided you averaged 65-70hrs a week that month)
* Technology is dated.... being provided a work laptop was a status symbol more than anything else..
* Middle Mgt were more babysitters than managers.. daily activity consisted of attending 8 hrs of meetings with very little insight, guidance or leadership.
* Organization wide meetings are riddled with propaganda and scare tactics.. during my tenure, EVERY all hands meeting I attended included a speech from the CIO that started with "How lucky we all were to have jobs...."
* Big Brother mentality from organizational leadership and HR.. during my tenure I probably had a handful of times that I arrived to work a little late (8am is a mandatory start time..non-negotiable).. I arrived to find emails and phone calls from HR asking if I was coming in that day.. they monitor your login times to make sure you are arriving and leaving at the appropriate times.
* Many policies (in my opinion) are in place to keep people from looking for employment elsewhere.. Very little vacation, very little sick time, very stringent 8am-5pm work schedule and expecting 45-50hrs a week at a MINIMUM, much scrutiny on using sick days or personal time - when I first hired in the HR department called me, just to ask that I take my resume down off any recruitment sites. Instead of trying to keep employees happy.. they just try to keep them busy and make it difficult to remember what life can be like with another company and of course interview anywhere else. - to make this easier they recruit recent college grads (with no other experience) very aggressively to replenish their young energetic talent pool, as the employees with talent leave at about the 2-2.5 year mark when they realize they are being underpaid and burnt out..

An actual quote from a Mgr: "The grass is brown everywhere"..

Advice to Senior Management – Change.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at New World Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great opportunity to get experience in a variety of areas

Cons – Lots of travel, long hours, no formal training/on boarding process, non competitive pay

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your employees development

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at New World Systems as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – If you are somewhat competent, work 45+ hours consistently, and don't question managerial decisions, this is a stable place to work. Hours worked were seemingly the most significant factor in determining employee's performance and organizational value.

Cons – Employees are overworked and forced to work long hours. When you interview with HR. it is made clear that 45 hours of "ideal time" is the expected minimum effort. Frequently, poor managerial decisions are made to maximize revenue or meet release dates, which requires workerbees to work long hours.

There is little long term vision at this predominately vb6 software shop. Expediency was valued over quality and long term viability of solutions.

Advice to Senior Management – Talk to your lower level employees. Managers seldom spoke with subordinates or attended daily status meetings.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at New World Systems full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Pros - Good experience, decent software, intelligent people at the company

Cons – The work environment is very cold. Employees are expected to work long hours, yet on the flip-side there is no flex time, there are very strict policies on needing time off for appointments etc. It goes both ways, and New World doesn't understand that. They also are more concerned about revenue making then anything else.

Advice to Senior Management – Revenue making is necessary, but it can come back to bite you. If you don't have employees, you don't have a company. Unhappy employees leads to unhappy customers which leads to no revenue.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at New World Systems full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Brilliant work-staff.
Helpful co-workers.
Incredible work ethic from a majority of those working.
Open to innovation.
Most positions provide an opportunity to travel.
Employment opportunities outside of the company are numerous and well paying; you will be recruited by another company and well paid for it.

Cons – Unimpressive salaries, bonuses and compensation.
Company owner does little to inspire confidence.
Contract says 40 hours, they require 55+ hours and will threaten with dismissal if not met.
No compensation or even appreciation for herculean efforts.
Travel percentages are a work of fiction; 75% travel means 2 weeks not traveling for New World counts weekends and holidays as days not traveling.
Managers are generally tasked with sales related tasks and are AWOL for managing their departments. Complete and dismissive disregard for their own customers/user-base.
Massive employee turnover.

Advice to Senior Management – By using an IQ test and aggressive university recruitment, New World Systems can always find new, brilliant workers. This should not mean that as a company they can all but lie to employees about the work contracts they've signed. Giving five days paid vacation and

There is a reason that everyone who has left New World has said it is the best thing that has ever happened to them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at New World Systems

Pros – Modern technologies are employed (Lab Management, TFS, .NET, Continuous Integration, Patterns and Practices Frameworks, etc). Assignments are interesting and enjoyable.

Some developers at New World are very knowledgeable and are team players. There are tremendous growth opportunities to learn new skills. Employees are generally friendly and easy to work with. Managers are open to discussions and do consider employee input.

Employees are very dedicated and work very hard to meet deadlines and customer needs. The typical work ethic of an employee here vastly exceeds that of an average employee at another development organization.

Cons – My bigest complaint is that number of hours worked by an employee seems to be valued more than an employees contributions. At a minimum 45 hours of work per week are expected. Most valued employees typically work 50 hours per week. Employees are expected to put long hours in, but the organization does not support true flex time. If the work expectations and work arrangements were slightly improved, most employee dissatisfaction would be resolved.

Leadership positions seem to be routinely filled by hiring external candidates instead of promoting from within. This is unfortunate for employees who desire career growth opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management – Consider changing some HR policies in order to retain employees.