National Government Services Reviews

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Lact of securing new contracts

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Large workload with not a lot of staff

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Company is a government contractor in a niche market, so every 5-10 contracts it performs work on are up for bid. It can become quite stressful during that time just because of the uncertainty of the retaining or gaining new contracts.

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trial by fire environment, thrown in the deep end quite a bit

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Top heavy with too many layers of management. Future feels very uncertain.

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Due to constant contractor bidding for work, uncertainty always loomed. Poor review process and management interaction. Although staff on front line is very intelligent, very little positive feedback and absolutely no security (of which constantly reminded).

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Managers not always available (door close approx 80% of the day).

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Goverment contract, pay very low benefits too expensive

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Micromanagement, focus on "hours worked" rather than productivity, allowing experienced associates to retire/leave without the benefit of training new hires,

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Upper tier and executive management. All the cons start there. Directors through VPs are littered with cronyism, prejudice and mediocrity. This blinds them from selecting people based on ability, talent, growth and investment. The old guard is old and aging and clinging dearly to their bloated paychecks and bonuses at the expense of an expedient, well-trained and talented workforce. They take on these contracts with reduced staff to perform the work, instituting mandatory overtime, completely obliterating the work/life balance they love to preach about. The staff is overworked, underpaid and excoriated for their efforts. Upper management is rewarded with large bonuses meted out by the parent company, Anthem, and bonuses from the client for money saved. The staff is excluded through reductions in force before bonus payout time (so they no longer qualify), no backup for earned PTO time, elimination of bonus or reduction in amount rewarded or other arbitrary designations to inflate the performance dollars, but starve the base. But hey, free pizza on your mandatory shift everyone! Several re-organizations have yielded little or no improvement. The workforce is institutionally miserable (i.e. they don't realize how unhappy they really are there until they leave). Internal Anthem transfers don't happen because once you land in the poisoned well of NGS, no one wants you.