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2.4

26% would recommend to a friend

(10 total reviews)

28% positive business outlook

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10 reviews
5.0
Sep 19, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great salary and benefits. Wide range of projects. Family oriented culture. I was part of a true team. Growing firm with short term long term opportunities. No need to work anywhere else in my career.

Cons

Haven't opened offices in other major metro areas yet in Texas.

2.0
Dec 27, 2018

School of hard knocks

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company focuses on providing a high quality product to their clients (at the cost of often times being late in delivery). I learned a lot about project development and management and about the plan creation process.

Cons

Work/life balance was challenging. There was regular pressure to work late and on weekends which was challenging when Sundays were strictly prohibited for working. Additionally, vacation requests were regularly denied after putting in significant amounts of overtime. Staff was regularly belittled and degraded, often to point of tears. The poor work environment and high turnover in this small company makes it hard to get work done as it is constantly having to be restarted with new employees that have to be brought up to speed and trained.

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DCS Engineering Response
5y
Thank you for your feedback. DCS is listening and focused on improving employees' at work experience and have made many changes. We are sensitive to the importance of having downtime and have put policies in place over the last several years. This has included encouraging employees to talk with their manager if they need help with balancing the workload; management more closely analyzing incoming work and existing staffing to avoid over-committing the firm and implementing work planning software. Employees are not required to check their email in the evenings or weekends. DCS has an employee flexible work schedule. There is also an opportunity to work paid overtime. Non-exempt employees are paid time-and-1/2, and exempt straight time. The DCS average workweek is M-F, 8-5, and sometimes needs to flex so we can serve unanticipated requests from our clients. We apologize for any employees that have not been treated with respect. Disrespectful behavior has been addressed and will be addressed if needed again in the future.
2.0
Nov 30, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The staff (not leadership) are some great folks. There's breakfast provided at staff meetings (free food!) and free Sodas.

Cons

The environment is toxic. I've been yelled at and belittled by the Owner/Principal. His wife is the CFO/Office Manager/HR and everything else. It doesn't make it a place where an employee can feel comfortable reporting an HR complaint. You're not a person here, you're a work horse. I've seen engineers cry at work.

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DCS Engineering Response
5y
Thank you for your review. Your observations and concerns help us better understand how we can improve. We recognize that mistakes have been made in the past and we have worked hard to make changes so these do not occur again. The management team continues to grow. We have added tenured business and project management professionals who align with our core values: trust, integrity, service, teamwork, and quality. We are also building a strong mid-level leadership team from within as our business grows. Separating business and technical functions amongst the management team are improving workload balancing. We recognize work-life balance is important to sustaining our success. In addition, human resource responsibilities have been assigned to the new tenured business professionals to help remove any obstacles which might inhibit employees from discussing concerns and/or reporting a complaint.
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