Slave Drivers - Anonymous employee Photon Employee Review

1.0
Nov 26, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you are lucky, you may get to work on some really strategic and transformative programs - very fulfilling if you are looking for that. Pay can be off the charts if you were hired at a time when the position was urgent and there was no one else in the pipeline. But beware - this also means you will be the first one on the chopping block.

Cons

Everything about this organization is an issue. Starting with service agreements that are border-line illegal, an ignorant finance team that does incorrect tax deductions on a regular basis putting individual employees in jeopardy with IRS, a culture of public humiliation and an employee workforce that’s majority sub-par skills. People here work hard - not because they love to, but because estimates are always aggressive and everyone is hired into roles way beyond their capability. To survive, you learn to lie. And then the lies become a way of life - resulting in missed commitments both internally and to clients. All of this stems from just one place - the egotistical and whimsical values of the company’s owner (the CTO). He is deranged and believes he is “god” and owns his employees. He believes he has the highest ethics and sense of fairness. He believes he is the most empathetic human in the world - all of this is far from true. But unfortunately he genuinely believes he is the best - he toys around with people’s lives not out of malice, but because that’s all he knows to be right.

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5.0
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Pros

Really good company to work for. Health benefits were great and was able to negotiate a good rate for my contract

Cons

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2.0
Apr 27, 2025
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Pros

Can be on interesting projects Some really good people If on correct team can be very good conditions such as remote work

Cons

Zero opportunities for growth Limited to no work/life balance No Severance Do not pay when on the bench Wrong team or manager the hr insanity can make it rough (One year they decided july 4th was not a holiday another they decided to lower the salary and increase the percentage that was bonus effectually giving everyone a pay cut).. Honestly a 2 might being generous but i have worked with some nice people there and the vast majority of the people were nice and good just wanting to get the job done . Any 5s are probably fake or the lucky few that do not have to deal with Photon Hr.

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