Coretelligent reviews

3.7

62% would recommend to a friend

(148 total reviews)

Vijay Iyer

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52% positive business outlook

Coretelligent has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 148 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Coretelligent employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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148 reviews
1.0
Oct 16, 2017

Avoid

Recommend
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Pros

You can learn a lot if you're good at teaching yourself

Cons

When you're interviewing, Coretelligent promises you the world and tells you everything you want to hear. After accepting the job, you start to see what you got yourself into. The company doesn't train you. You're thrown out into the field on one of your first days, billing out hours even though you don't know the job or the company's systems yet. Inevitably, you'll make a mistake. When you do, management jumps to criticism and blame. They don't consider that they never taught you the right way to do it. It feels they'd rather force you to screw up so they can then hold it over you than just teach you the right way to do it. If you can deal with management and teach yourself, you'll learn a lot. But there's not much of a career track here. Morale is bad, and culture and values don't exist. When it comes to pay - it's OK, but take your time and look around and you can probably find a job that pays more or similar for much less frustration Even the people who are really senior still have to spend a lot of their time on desktop support. If that's your cup of tea, that's great, but it's not a huge career builder. There are some good people here outside of management, and some of the clients can be ok, but the bad still outweighs the good by a lot in my opinion. I'm looking for something better.

1.0
Oct 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good exposure to technology, good co-workers

Cons

As an MSP Coretelligent inherently has poor QoL due to the nature of the business. This is standard for the industry and expected to an extent. However, management has taken to pushing numerous policies which affect staff (engineers primarily) negatively. Some examples include: alternating overtime bans with mandatory 12 hour work days (because people don't put in enough overtime during the banned overtime periods?), setting unrealistic maximum travel times between clients, mandating 8 hours of billable time for remote work (when time is tracked to the minute, this results in either padded time entries or absurd work hours), tracking internal chat logs (used as evidence to punish people) and various others. Probably the most consistent thing that has happened with Coretelligent over several years is empty promises, if you speak with management things like training, being horribly understaffed, and general QoL changes are "right around the corner". It's been this way for years, the only recent good change was legally mandated overtime which was then banned once they realized how much it costs. Pay and promotions seem to only be increased in response to threats to losing employees. Management is more than happy to find scapegoats for any larger issues that occur. You will never actually be trained in anything so hope you don't screw up while trying to figure things out or you'll find yourself fired in a heartbeat. There's a running "joke" that there's no point in meeting new people for a few months since they'll most likely be fired before then. There are various other "smaller" issues that need to be sorted out as well, the company is at the size where business hour engineers should not be doing on call, additional hires have been made to cover some afterhours but not all. It is a week straight where you can't be more than 5 minutes away from your house and regularly lose sleep dealing with issues like wrong numbers, false alerts, or any minor issue that a person decides needs to be addressed at 3 in the morning. This also happens on sometimes a one or two week notice requiring you to cancel any plans. The engineers are horribly understaffed, and while they are held to very high levels of accountability, it seems that does not apply to any other departments and you will regularly need to run damage control on issues caused by procurement, scheduling, management, etc. It's very common to have time off denied and sick time is fought back on regularly. Please, look at the 5 star reviews on Glassdoor. There's a reason they're posted within a week of each other, it's a threat response to reviews like this one that they're scared of potential hires reading. I'm sure HR will respond to say saying "they care, this isn't accurate, blah blah blah" There's a reason multiple of these reviews been cropping up lately. This part year especially Coretelligent has taken a severe nosedive in how they treat their employees and as of yet there are no signs of change.

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Coretelligent Response
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Thank you for your review. Employee concerns such as these are best brought forward in a forum that can promote positive change. Coretelligent maintains an open-door policy to proactively address employee feedback and concerns. We agree that the MSP industry is very competitive, and that this creates demand for talented engineers. We value our employee relationships and do our best to provide a positive working environment for our employees, and to provide competitive compensation packages. This includes our tech time incentive program which is designed to reward employees for their hard work and dedication. But, like most successful MSP’s, client needs create occasions where an engineer needs to work longer hours, including overtime, or must be on-call. We explain this to all employees and candidates before they take the position. When it comes to overtime, Coretelligent follows all federal and state laws. We do require employees to obtain manager approval prior to incurring overtime so as to protect our clients from incurring unnecessary expense. We have communicated these policies to our employees, and maintain a current overtime policy in our employee handbook. We realize the lifestyle and demands of an MSP engineer are not for everyone. A few engineers have recently resigned for exactly that reason. We regret that their experience was not as they hoped, but understand the basis for their decision to leave. We believe, however, that we have the proper human resource structure in place at Coretelligent for employees to raise their questions or concerns and to give us a full and fair opportunity to address them. Any current employee or candidate at Coretelligent should feel free to ask questions or voice their concerns to the management team.
3.0
Jul 29, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Experience, upward mobility, money. Coretelligent is a very fast growing MSP with over a thousand clients. They acquired two additional MSPs in the past year or so. If you are starting out and need some great experience and don't mind utter chaos, and clients yelling at you, this may be a good fit for you. The money is the best I've made in the field, but you will work hard for it. Upward mobility is quite quick as the company grows, if you bust it hard, you can climb rapidly. This job will give you roughly a year of actual experience in three months. I worked here for 3 years and new employers of mine equate my experience from this place to be worth at least 7 years. It will make you a Jack of All IT. Hard work, but big rewards.

Cons

Stress, extreme multitasking, requires a large amount of faking it 'til you make it. 1000 clients comes with thousands of different infrastructures, softwares, nuances, GPO, policies, guidelines, and compliances. It's completely overwhelming at times. Pods are being implemented to divvy the workload, but you still never know what you will be picking up the phone to. An EA with too much admin access (they "insisted" on having) accidentally nuking a file system? A CEO that insults you as you fix their "issue" with Teams for two hours? A Pro to this company was that they are fast growing, however each company that joins comes with its own quirky clients, and "how they do things" and a endless black hole missing of documentation. It's utter pandemonium at times, but if you thrive in that kind of environment, the money is worth it. Be prepared for a lot of independent time, as the managers are often pulled away to other issues. They are good managers, but their roles do not allow them the attention they often need for their engineers.

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