Pason Systems Reviews

Pros

Management & co-workers were all talented and operated at a high level. Pay is above average with goot benefits.

Cons

It's an oil field service company, the business goes way up and then way down.

Pros

Company vehicle and bonus are a plus.

Cons

Pay is very low when figured by the hour. Work 24/7 on days you are scheduled. Regional managers mainly like those who kiss up and not the ones doing all the work.

Pros

It was a great company when it was smaller and had a tighter group of employees. Stock options were good. CEO and CFO are good people but their level of influence and involvement has been reduced by multiple layers of Middle Management.

Cons

Poor starting wage, at one point interns were making more then regular employees. No accountability for HR mistakes.

Middle Management was hired from ex-Nortel employees who started to run the company like Nortel. They only care about personal gain and turned Pason into a Nortel-Lite. Management was hired from post pathetic Nortel not the 1999-2000 industry leading Nortel.

Company's is not very honest about it's strategic intent. They used the excuse of paying more for an outsourcing company to support the Full Time staff, so FT's could move onto more interesting projects. The outsourcing company was given the same projects and management roles where regular FT's could of challenged for. When the recession hit the out sourcing staff stayed while many FT's were let go.

Advice to Senior Management

You guys aren't that great. Get over it.

Pros

The benefits were completely paid for by the company, which is nice. They like to have cookouts and it like they almost care for you. hehehe

Cons

Management, specifically middle management, doesn't have a clue what is going on it seems. They tell you that you have "the right to challenge" but when you actually challenge it does nothing but make you look bad. When questions are asked of management, answers, if true, rarely come. Its all about making themselves look good to upper management. Their performance reviews are a joke..... they ask you what you need, only to laugh or turn down every request for training or tools. While they love to hire interns, probably because they are cheaper, they do have some smart people, but most of them have no oil and gas experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Quit wasting time showing pretty slide shows every quarter and actually listen to the people who actually do the work. Its getting to the point where there is too many managers, and each one of them have their own little agendas that Jim Hill doesn't see. And be honest with your employees.

Pros

Salary and benefits are average.

Cons

No management support; once you calculate the hours a person REALLY works in a day (with NO overtime because it's salary) the wage is actually very low; no teamwork within the company - you are on your own!

Advice to Senior Management

Upper Management has to take more control of it's middle management and start to pay attention. Middle management is very corrupt and will not take responsiblity or manage internal problems effectively. Taking a "blind eye" approach is the easiest way out.

Pros

Salary and benefits. nothing more.

Cons

Opportunity for growth. Generally, they do not have programs encouraging people to get further education or training outside of their company. Scholarship or grants that could have been use to enhance job inputs. Also, inside politics would stab you at the back. In times of difficulty, the top management concern is to save their own purse but not the staff to whom much the work is done.

Advice to Senior Management

Be transparent to your employees and be truthful to what you say. In difficult times, a little sacrifice from top management would have been great for the sake of your employees. Scholarship or grants to encourage your people to invest on continuing education. Less politics, performance feedback should come among co-employees not just relying on statistics or only one person and be fair to your employees especially those staff that does a lot of work for you.

Pros

Pason Systems has a great atmosphere to work in. The company seems very fair with compensation and has great benefits. They really promote a work/life balance with vacation time and incorporate many social activities such as BBQs into the workday.

Cons

I'm not really sure of that many. I've only been here for a short time and am quite pleased with everything so far.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the good work.