Pros
Proservartner is a traditional consultancy partnership. By which I mean you have a group of people who would typically be contractors who form together in order to share costs, be stronger as a group etc. Where traditionally this model means that everyone is only out for themselves, there is a sense of company and community here and you do feel part of a team. The people who are recruited are normally of good quality, with many years of experience and so you can learn a lot from them. The company is trying its best to implement more formal procedures and niceties such as a gift basket at Christmas and your birthday, a day out etc Remote working is the norm at this company and they are certainly flexible to your needs in this regard, and on the few occasions I had personal issues come up, they were very understanding. Generally speaking they let you get on with your job and there is not much in the way of micro-management.
Cons
The turnover of staff at this small company is insane. I would estimate that more than 90% of the staff leave each and every year, and there is a good reason for this. Never have I worked at a place where 'long-term' and 'strategic' were such dirty words. Nearly everything is done on the CEO's whim and Rakesh expects often large-scale projects to be turned around with practically no time to prep. Everything is done with an extremely short-term view in mind, if it isn't successful immediately it dies. Where it is perhaps normal for a startup to have a 'just say yes' whenever anyone asks about your capabilities, I would suggest that it is not normal for a company that has been running for 12+ years. On numerous occasions I saw projects being sold where Proservartner had no experience whatsoever. I recall a very junior member of staff being asked to give a presentation on capabilities just 2 days after even learning about the software. Many of the case studies on the website are borrowed/recycled from vendors. As you might imagine when we did win work, there were often problems with the projects. I am amazed no one has ever taken them to court. In my time there, the senior management team all took a 20% pay cut due to covid and literally weeks later, they hired 7-12 new people. Other members of staff told me they were asked to take pay cuts also and instead left. Proservartner is constantly losing very good people but don't seem to care, if you are not bringing in money, they don't care.
