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      Micromanagement is too BAD!!! - Database Consultant Pythian Employee Review

      3.0
      Jan 24, 2019
      Database consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      As usual from other reviews, Work from home is a great benefit. CEO Paul is very inspirational, Motivating personality. Great support on conferences (financially). Great support for trainings and certifications.

      Cons

      1. Filling 8 Hours per day is painful when there is no sufficient work available within the team. We need to find work from our team or other teams to complete 8 hours, even though its duty of the manager to assign work. 2. Some employees sitting from years, decades and have a very good hold in a company and they can easily blame newcomer. I had a very bad experience with my Manager and Colleague as they are blamed for no reason. God knows well what is happened and unfortunately, management has to listen to one of the employees and blamed me on all the corners. But they will pay/suffer definitely and finally forced me to resign from Pythian. This is really unacceptable and unexpected. 3. Lot of politics 4. To fill the 8 hours time, it will force us to fill wrong time to customers. Else we our salary will be dedcuted or have to pay leaves. This is bad part of the company, I recommend to change the policies. 5. I have seen resources, who fill 2 hours for even 10 minutes of work. Customer finally a big looser.

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      Pythian Response
      7y
      Great to hear you enjoyed the flexibility to work from home and the benefits we give towards employees professional development. I also agree that Paul our CEO does a great job at inspiring the team which makes us feel well connected to Pythian’s mission. I acknowledge it’s not always an easy task to fill hours when there isn’t sufficient work however billing unworked hours is a violation of our policies and is unacceptable. I am sorry that you feel your experience with our long term employees wasn’t great. I, however, have seen the support tenured employees have given to new hires and a mentor role they’ve taken on to share their knowledge and experience with the team. Our global team is comprised of many long-standing employee Laureates ( employees at 5 and 10 years tenure) employees who make up about 25% of our organization. I would absolutely welcome you to reach out to me if you'd like to discuss specific concerns that you believe have not been properly heard. You can contact me directly at graham@pythian.com.

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      Pros

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      Cons

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      4.0
      Dec 15, 2025
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      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Being a sales representative at Pythian has a lot of advantages.: - The leadership team is holistically (ie spanning GTM, delivery, everyone in-between) committed to helping the sales team succeed and bring in new business (everyone wins.) - Our technical resources and SMEs (we sell services here, and do partner heavily with our SMEs during presales) are the brightest in the business, spanning 40+ named data/cloud infra technologies (and many more in the overall braintrust). - Autonomy over your own business ie: if you are achieving your goals people will (mostly) give you leeway do what you need to do to continue selling successfully.

      Cons

      - Private equity backed organization, so it can feel like we are understaffed pretty frequently. This can slow sales cycles and create CSAT issues. Need to be ready to adapt. - The sales reps at Pythian who find success need to be comfortable being agile, we encounter new situations every day and opportunities/problems rarely fit into a box. Also need to be comfortable taking ownership over situations for the betterment of your customers, pipeline, etc. - Very minimal pipeline generation support.

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