IT team member - Developer bei Hawk Incentives: Mitarbeiterbewertung

Hawk Incentives gives you the opportunity to grow within the organization.

Growth was typically slower, and a solid manager helped with better growth opportunities.

- Work from home opportunities, depending on department - Negotiate salary at time of hire (YOU tell them what you want to make, they try to make it happen) - 15 days vacation, 6 sick days - Last week of the year off (3 days unpaid unless you use vacation) - Option to buy stock at a reduced price - Full benefits (vision, dental, health) - Flexible spending account - Life insurance paid by company - Birthday/anniversary recognition - People bring in food all the time - Semi-flexible scheduling, depending on your manager - Very intelligent team with great personalities - Long tenures for some (up to 35 years - but does not come with an ego) - Very understanding of family life - Agile programming style, sort of (see cons) - Some employees can earn grants of shares from the company - Hard work does come with promotion as the opportunities arise - Relaxed about language to some extent - Semi-casual dress code. Occasionally asked to dress up for clients - Fenton location won the biggest project in the newly formed BES, so lots of promising new work - Will try to work with you if you go through a rough patch - Onsite cafeteria in the Maritz building is pretty decent food-wise

- Occasional overtime - Acquisition by larger corporation has shaken up the culture and team - Vacation earned on check-by-check basis. Many contract with right-to-hire and take no vacation, then stuck with earning it. - The most efficient solution is not always the solution the middle management chooses - Tend to break processes after they are proven to work, after they are refined for optimum efficiency - General low morale from assimilating to parent company's desires - Being given 3 days off at the end of the year and then not being paid for them is cheap. - Markets can be volatile and affect raises - Cannot advance based on merit/skills alone, it has a time component - Global management means that a regular employee does not have any chance of mingling with upper management if one so desired it - Business occasionally oversells the development - Fail to hire new people in a timely manner as people leave, which seems to be foolish - Great minds have left because they felt they weren't learning anything or weren't challenged enough - If you don't have kids, there will be less leniency for personal life conflicts - Some managers are paranoid - Parking can be tricky on the Maritz campus; if you don't arrive early enough, there are no spaces close to the building - No official "paid lunch" concept, either you work while you eat or you stay late, though I've seen that violated without repercussion. Some managers only care if you leave the building since it takes a minimum of an hour if you sit down at a restaurant away from campus. The inconsistency can be annoying.