Worst experience of my career - Mitarbeiter (anonym) bei Systems Evolution: Mitarbeiterbewertung

1.0
26. Aug. 2016
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-Salary base is decent, however variable comp is not the best compensation policy

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I don't want anyone else to go into this firm blindsided so I will discuss my experience: -Very predatory recruiting (I was informally offered the job from the "MD" in my region, without actual interviews). Later I discovered, this was mainly for my connections on LinkedIn - the office was not expanding it's client base, and was looking for hires to quickly fill in the BD gap (I don't think anyone in management knows the turnaround time of a BD sales cycle). -MD had no real regional contacts and was very feeble, not qualified to be an MD. -No pipeline. -Had a really poorly organised remote project (where the client was not aware of my presence) during my time there. Project lacked adherence to basic audit and security protocols. -mandatory fratty drinking culture every 2 weeks. Worked at a well known consultancy precursor and an investment bank before that, and this was very pointless and classless. -round-about internal team meetings that lead to nothing, due primarily to really bad management overseeing -as someone stated, their lack of infrastructure they attribute to being a startup. however they have been around for more than 20 years. their collateral is something out of a high school design class from the early 90s. Also no white papers, no internal staff training. -staff aug projects, defintely not a strategy shop. -BD pursuits and strategy non-existent -No real team atmosphere, my experience there was equivalent to a staffing agency. was let go for "not fitting in" after a few months. Their pipeline was dry, and I was on the bench for 98% of this time.

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Principals get 65% of bill rate, which is solid for the industry. Company got very ‘woke’ during Covid, so there is considerable diversity now.

Kontras

Company is a cult. It’s staffed by a bunch of mid to late career PMs that are a level above offshore staff aug. Management talks a lot about AI without any of the MDs or CEO knowing anything about it or choosing to spend any time learning how to sell it, market it, or hire for it. The firm started hiring cybersecurity roles, cloud architecture roles, etc to avoid losing revenue associated with opportunities when clients would ask for those roles, but SEI treats them the same as the staff aug PMs and they choose not to invest any attention to branding and marketing those disciplines, leaving those individuals to often have considerable unpaid bench time. Most leave within a few years because it’s clear the company doesn’t value them- the ONLY thing the company cares about is “what did you sell this quarter”. If you are not a PM and you’re considering this company, seriously do your own research and make sure you can sell to 3 or 4 people in your network within your first year. If you aren’t comfortable with that, you’re not going to have a good experience at SEI.

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