QuEST Global (Connecticut) Reviews

Current Employee – been working at QuEST Global (Connecticut) full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – -a lot of opportunities to work on different assignments
-good people to work with
-you get work with pretty advanced engineering technology

Cons – -not the right place for everyone.
-customers may be overly involved
-need to create your own visibility to senior management

Advice to Senior Management – More face time

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

Current Employee – been working at QuEST Global (Connecticut) full-time for less than a year

Pros – * growth opportunities
* prosperous work
* great people to work with
* market value pay
* easy to commute (east hartford)
* aggresive and strategic company
* flexible hours
* eventhough its a big company, feels like its family oriented company

Cons – * Too much to do and not enough hours

Advice to Senior Management – I think the leader have put up a great strategic direction and a map. Make time for your people

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

Current Employee – been working at QuEST Global (Connecticut) full-time for more than a year

Pros – Opportunities of Mobility, Varied Customer Base, Different Fields

Cons – Work not Technically challenging, Projects are usually short term, PM processes not at par with Industry

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

Current Employee – been working at QuEST Global (Connecticut) full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Mobility
-Good team enviroment
-Find a niche that fits you

Cons – -No paid Holidays and to many days off
-Payscale

Advice to Senior Management – Work on getting hours rolled over from previous year and more PTO or some paid holidays.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at QuEST Global (Connecticut) as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Subsidiaries of United Technologies was outsourcing a lot of jobs to QuEST during the economic downturn. This temporary job allowed me to gain experience until I found a full time position with a different company.

Cons – Their compensation was about 30 - 40% less than industry standard and they had very little benefits.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your employees competitively and they might stay.

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

Current Employee – been working at QuEST Global (Connecticut) full-time for less than a year

Pros – Flexable schedule, get access to P&W

Cons – No paid hiolidays, lousy hourly pay.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at QuEST Global (Connecticut) for less than a year

Pros – Flexible schedule is nice. You are obligated to be there from 9-3, so you can go in early or go in at 9, whatever you prefer. Also, if "doing nothing" all day is your style of work, this job will suite that desire.

Cons – The pay is well below the mean for a project engineer. You are really nothing more than a data entry worker; which, in my opinion, is a degrading feeling when I've graduated college and gotten an engineering degree.

There are no paid holiday's. The 10 vacation days must be applied to the holiday closures and furlough time. Don't get sick and don't make plans for a vacation.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your people more. Give them more responsibilities. Make them feel less like invalids and more like engineers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at QuEST Global (Connecticut)

Pros – - Relatively easy to get a job here.
- Some of the projects can be interesting.
- May see some cutting edge technology being developed.
- Flexible hours.
- Larger office with more people to socialize with.
- Good resume builder.
- Good equipment to work with (nice computer, dual monitors, local and network cluster, etc.)
- Spacious cubicles.
- Benefits are about average.
- Vacation relatively easy to take.

Cons – Biggest down side- there are a lot of down sides.
The work itself:
- Can get very repetitive (turbine blades all look the same).
- Analysis only job: customer does the design, you plug it in and show them the results.
- Work breakdown: 50% PowerPoint creation, 30% filling out forms/checklists/reviews, 20% engineering
- Collaboration, teamwork, and knowledge expansion is mostly frowned upon.

Company:
- Contract-based company: every hour worked must be billed or you won't be paid. If work goes over budget (due to poor leadership, organisation, customer interaction, etc.) engineers are still expected to catch up (unpaid) on work.
- Budget for training is non-existent.
- Pay is very low when comparing experience/degree with other similar positions.
- Structure, titles, organization frequently changes.
- Company is largely run by India. Excessive grammatically incorrect communications of all mediums is sent to the employees.
- HR communication is poor; any request takes over a week before a reply is received, as everything must route through an Indian representative.

Other:
- Company morals/ethics very low. Managers are profit driven and will put deadlines/customer demands above all morals. Quality of work suffers and mistakes are frequently encountered.
- Managers have no management background and perform interpersonal duties poorly. Most managers at Quest are Aero-thermal/Project Engineers that have reached the "length of service required" to be a manager, and are therefore promoted.

Advice to Senior Management – Communication is very poor and senior management seems oblivious to what happens "in the trenches."
One would think that seeing so many people leave and having such low scores on employee "engagement" that something is awry.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at QuEST Global (Connecticut)

Pros – Flexibility of hours
Nice people/work enviornment

Cons – Quality of work ethic is lacking

Advice to Senior Management – Limit team lead SOWs to a max of 30hrs a week so they have time to manage their team adequately

Former Employee – worked at QuEST Global (Connecticut)

Pros – Easy and fast induction program. IT support is great. Good to work here, but just for career development

Cons – They do not diversify, just provide services to GE energy. Management is not communicating well and their quality program is just being implemented with efforts.

Advice to Senior Management – Improve communication with employees.