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Elizabeth Buske
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Pros
"It's honestly a great place to work and I've had a chance to work for some top-rated companies in my career" (in 3 reviews)
"You get to work with some pretty amazing people and the culture allows a rather frictionless flow of communication and teaming on work" (in 2 reviews)
Cons
"The purchase by Booz Allen Changed Management style in some departments" (in 6 reviews)
"Below market salaries, primarily government contracts, required to use inferior technologies per the government contract" (in 3 reviews)
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"Acquisition"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at SPARC full-time (More than a year)
Pros
- People were always helpful and nice
- Great work life balance, always understood when you needed to have a half day for personal reasons
- Senior software engineers were willing to teach and have learning sessions
- Good salaries for Charleston SCCons
- Part of Booz-Allen Hamilton now and the large company bureaucracy happened
Advice to Management
Try to keep the business politics away from the engineers and development teams
SPARC 2018-07-16 12:30 PDT![SPARC Logo]()
"Analyst"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at SPARC full-time
Pros
Amazing atmosphere
Friendly people
Great work and home balanceCons
Below market salary
Owned by government contracts
No growth opportunity
No annual bonus
Annual salary raise does not correspond with performance
No guarantee of salary increase with position movementAdvice to Management
Be more engaged with your employees' hard work, education, motivation, and willingness to move up within the company. No incentive means no employee. Employees deserve bonuses (especially since they are now owned by a 5+ billion dollar company) and salary adjustments should be based on performance!
SPARC 2018-06-06 08:25 PDT![SPARC Logo]()
"Intern"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at SPARC part-time
Pros
Great Experience, learned a lot.
Cons
Communication within organization is difficult sometimes,
SPARC 2018-03-15 09:21 PDT![SPARC Logo]()
"This company is still great even if it's not the same."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SPARC full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Great culture, some interesting projects and amazing people. Yes, it's different since the buyout but greater Booz Allen has pretty much kept out of our hair. A name is just a name! From reading other posts about Senior MGMT not doing their job makes me scratch my head. I've never seen anyones voice not heard or concern addressed, perhaps there's other things to those reviews.
Cons
VBMS is boring, some of the newer hires aren't the "rockstars " they claim to be.
Advice to Management
Don't forget where we came from and what made Sparc a thing. Remember our guidance and give hug-factor.
SPARC 2017-09-08 10:07 PDT![SPARC Logo]()
"It"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at SPARC full-time
Pros
Great atmosphere fun projects and new building
Cons
The purchase by Booz Allen Changed Management style in some departments
SPARC 2017-08-31 10:33 PDT![SPARC Logo]()
"This Company Does Not Exist"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at SPARC full-time
Pros
It was one of the best places to work when it existed.
Cons
The work wasn't always the most exciting back in the day.
Advice to Management
Pull the profile and stop lying to engineers for recruiting.
SPARC 2017-09-14 13:47 PDT![SPARC Logo]()
"This company use to be great"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEOI have been working at SPARC full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Flexible work hours and good restaurants in the area.
Cons
This company was once great and I enjoyed showing up to work every day. Since the company was acquired management appears to no longer care about culture. I now feel like I am working for a giant machine and no longer at the enjoyable company I was once at.
The recruiting staff still pitches the fun and productive work environment Sparc used to have, but that is sadly no longer the case.Advice to Management
Bring back a CEO who cares about their employees.
SPARC 2017-09-07 12:55 PDTHelpful (1)
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"This company no longer exists"
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Pros
When it existed in 2015, it was a great company!
Cons
This company no longer exists. Booz Allen Hamilton bought most of the federal contracts and the people in an asset purchase and the company itself is basically vacant with no employees. SPARC is now just a fake brand name of a dev shop in Charleston S.C. and there is no CEO. All the systems are now BAH and this profile is very deceiving for future employees since they will not be working for "SPARC" since there is no entity named such.
Advice to Management
Remove this profile and stop lying to help recruiting
SPARC 2017-09-04 13:42 PDT![SPARC Logo]()
"Chill Culture, Smart people, boring projects"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at SPARC full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
- relaxed culture
- competent leadersCons
you end up working boring projects
SPARC 2017-07-14 15:58 PDTHelpful (1)
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"You can find 20 other dispensaries you'd rather work at"
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I worked at SPARC full-time
Pros
Awesome employees. They know the right kind of people to hire.
Cons
Upper management is terrible and if you ever have something to report against anyone in upper management, you'll get fired or it.
SPARC 2017-07-06 23:41 PDT
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