Reynolds and Reynolds Reviews in Houston, TX Area

Pros

Requires no experience, only promote from within so you can grow with the company, fun events, intramural sports, some really great people to work with.

Cons

Intro vacation time is insufficient, very conservative and watches timestamps closely, the location is undesirable out at hollister and 290.

Advice to Senior Management

Trust your employees more, pay somewhat higher, do not require doctor's notes for sick days, be less strict in general.

Pros

You get your own office
Good work/life balance
fellow coworkers are great

Cons

huge turnover rate.
no say in how features are implemented.
depending on supervisor, large amount of micromanagement.
upper management's software knowledge is obsolete and their product design decisions reflect that.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't treat developers as throw-away commodity. The product is subpar and could be done way better if you cared to.

Pros

Good Insurance program, company does interact with lower level employees via monthly parties and a yearly company BBQ and Picnic. Good opportunity to work on high level equipment

Cons

Management does not care about technicians. Will not foster educational growth in your work field. Does not want to give their customers the best service.

Advice to Senior Management

Knowledge is power and the best technicians are the smart technicians. Don't promote a woman just because she is a woman promote her because she earned it.

Pros

Good training. Perfect for recent graduated. Extremely structured. Ok first experience in the professional world. Other employees are usually pretty nice.

Cons

Sink or swim mentality. Employees are a necessity not an asset. Low pay, very little raises. Too much travel with little heads up.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on employees as an asset not as something disposable and or easily replaceable. You are letting too much knowledge walk out the door that hurst the quality of the services you provide.

Pros

The people. They hire good people who work hard. The employees are the only reason I stayed as long as I did.

Cons

No loyalty to their employees. They look for any reason to let people go, no matter how long they have worked at the company. If you do not see eye to eye with a VP, you will be gone in a short period of time.

Advice to Senior Management

you spend so much time and money training good people, it seems like you would try to keep hard working loyal employees instead of looking for reasons to let them go.

Pros

- Hires right out of college
- Good way to get hired quickly and get entry level experience
- On-site dining facility
- Paid for overtime hours worked
- Small raises every year

Cons

- Very low compensation
- Poor vacation/holiday benefits (vacation= no days your first year, in your second year, you get one day of vacation for every full month you worked in your first year) (holidays=8)
- Position was poorly labeled (marketed as doing different work than you actually do)
- Little room for advancements or promotions
- Dead end job
- Boring job - very repetitive with little room for creativity or growth
- Poor management
- Little communication from management to employees, or between teams
- Everyone is treated the same (whether you are working really hard or barely working enough to get by)
- No rewards system
- Make promises they don't come through with

Pros

I worked in a department that was flexible. I was able to handle anything that popped up in my home life when I needed to, but most of the other departments are not ran that way. I also did not have much work, so I did have time to pursue other opportunities. Again, that was special though. Lastly, my coworkers were amazing. Great people who simply are either stuck or who have settled.

Cons

The company does not appreciate its employees at all. I worked with amazing individuals and we were all underpaid by 25% or more comparably to similar companies. It was a very depressing work environment as it became obvious that we were all simply human resources to be used and discarded at will.

Advice to Senior Management

Sneaky paycuts like $500 raises but $1000 insurance premium increases is the most demoralizing practice ever. Also, working from home is not slacking off. Some of the positions would be perfect for it and you should give it a try. If nothing else, your employees could at least save a little gas. Lastly, if you actually want to keep the best, you should at least pay as much as ADP.

Pros

That place is one of the worst places I've ever worked at. The compensation is low, the benefits are poor and the leaders are all in it for themselves. I worked there for 3 years. The way they keep you is by making you comfortable and so complacent to the point it's hard to look for another job because you've made friends and you have a routine. While being there, the restrictions of what you could not do continued to grow. While I don't smoke, you can't smoke, they eliminated sugar from the cafeteria and the vending machine. Next their going to raise the rates on medical benefits if you're over a certain BMI or if you have a high cholesterol. While, I could understand that if they were paying for the benefits and they were free to employees, but they're not! When I was there, our only Christmas "bonus" was a Christmas party. Well, they took that away as well. There are no incentives to working there!

Cons

Diverse group of people. Good to put on a resume and get experience.

Pros

It's a non-smoking facility, so NOBODY smokes. Flexible with scheduling, no micro-managing. Strong 401K plan, good benefits, lots of company sports leagues and sponsored events. One of the largest privately owned companies in the US

Cons

Coming from years in the corporate world in a different industry, it's unfortunate that many of the new hires are straight out of college and have no basis for comparison when criticizing the company. Many of the complaints I hear are about things that are just part of the corporate world no matter where you go. I hear complaints about starting pay, but they will train you from the ground up and there are significant opportunities for advancement or lateral movement within the company

Pros

Provides good training
Recognition from upper management

Cons

Low base salary
Have to wait for a while for promotion
Have to stay quite some time with the company to get to normal salary range