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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=232089
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Apr 16th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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The Purple Guys
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Senior IT Manager
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Kansas City, MO
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Great MSP
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Great front line IT staff
Very little on call work
Small company feel
Growing fast
IT staff is valued and not just an expense line item
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Struggles with having enough techs to do the job
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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0.0
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4.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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3.0
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4.0
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232089
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Open
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Hire more people!!
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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0.0
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May 7th, 2021 10:37PM
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May 7th, 2021 10:37PM
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Versent
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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1725373
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Mar 30th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Versent (Australia)
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Senior Software Engineer
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Melbourne
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Good company
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Good exposure to cloud services
Nice work culture
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Not much App-dev works, mostly DevOps
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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4.0
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1725373
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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4.0
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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Versent
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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=232089
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Mar 26th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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The Purple Guys
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Remote Services Team Lead
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Kansas City, KS
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Great Place to Work!
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Great group of people with which to work, from management down thru the whole organization.
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Can be a hectic pace, which is the nature of an MSP.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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5.0
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232089
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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6.0
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May 7th, 2021 10:37PM
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May 7th, 2021 10:37PM
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Versent
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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1725373
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Mar 24th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Versent (Australia)
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Lead Engineer (Managed Services)
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Sydney
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It's not too bad...
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- Good engineers who are always willing to help and support in any way they can
- Good exposure to a wide variety of AWS services through many different client accounts
- Good learning resources to help you gain certifications for career development
- Good office. However it is empty most of the time now due to most people working from home these days (Covid) which is a shame
- Flexible working
- Rewarded for hard work
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Plenty of fake 5 star reviews. I mean.. you could have at least made it believable too, 10 or so 5 star reviews within a week? errr yeh...sure. It's so dam obvious. Somebody never learnt how to change their report card in school. D turns into a B so easily...
Onto some legitimate negative feedback.
- Managed services is under staffed due to managements obsession with margins and not customer service. Amazon was built on customer service, you would think we would be taking a leaf from their book.
- Because of the above point, you will be busy, very busy. I hope you like being busy.
- The work life balance is poor. They will preach "work life balance" rubbish during interviews, but the reality is they have absolutely nothing to back it up with. It's all fluff. They particularly don't staff with work life balance in mind, they staff based on margins and margins alone.
- Severe lack of high level technical direction and strategy within managed services.
- Business focus is on Stax, and all other areas such as managed services are just a means to an end to support this mindset. The problem being is that Stax is just bang on average. AWS will gulp this up eventually and it will become redundant.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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6.0
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3.0
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2.0
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3.0
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3.0
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3.0
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2.0
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1725373
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Open
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Managed services could be so much more with the required support from upper management, but it seems the desire and focus is just not there. Your service quality is dropping and customers are starting to call this out. You will lose clients eventually if you don't lift your game.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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Versent
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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1725373
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Mar 15th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Versent (Australia)
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Principal Consultant
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Sydney
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Great company to work for
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Flexibility, Life-Worf balance, Culture, Founders, Social events, Sydney office, Authenticity & Honesty
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Versent has gotten bigger in the last couple of years making salary rises & promotions harder. Sometimes miscommunication between Leadership and Managers and inconsistency between what they preach and what you get.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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4.0
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5.0
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4.0
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4.0
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4.0
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4.0
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1725373
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Open
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Management & Leadership training
Leaders who care more about people and not just the results that they bring to the company
Salary rises & promotions in line with the person's hard work, results, values & commitment
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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4.0
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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Versent
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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1725373
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Feb 28th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Versent (Australia)
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Director
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Sydney
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A consulting firm born in the cloud
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1. Great team
2. Great clients
3. Strong management
4. Strong products/services
5. Strong partnership with AWS
6. Ability to work from home for all staff 100% of the time (March 2020 - Present)
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1. Incredibly fast paced (can be too fast unless one throttles the amount of work they commit to)
The fact that the business is growing fast is a two edged sword. On one side it allows for great opportunities, and exciting work, and on the other side it can be tiring at times. (It is not a con per se, but rather something to be aware of)
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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2.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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1725373
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Open
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Keep looking after the people, and the people will keep delivering great work.
More staff days to socialise would be ideal (this hasn't been possible in the last year due to COVID), but going forward once we get back to a more normal post pandemic world, more interaction with colleagues to socialise would be ideal)
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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|
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
|
Versent
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|
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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1725373
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Feb 25th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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Versent (Australia)
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Senior Engineer
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Melbourne
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From Done Done to Dun Dun
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Some excellent, genuine, smart people that work there that are passionate about the technology.
Interesting work in the data space.
Flexible WFH has been good.
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Horrible middle management and strange organisation structure prevents remediation of any real issues.
Some massive egos, one middle manager in particular that smiles and pretends to listen but is secretly wondering how best become CEO.
Refocus away from lift and shift work. You used to be the top tier company to talk to about APIs and commercialising them. Focus away from that has really hurt the value of the brand. Leave the mundane migration work to Accenture.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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1.0
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APPROVE
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4.0
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2.0
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4.0
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2.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
|
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1725373
|
Open
|
Restructure and purge the middle management. You've got smart enough people who are all base line seniors to not need it.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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4.0
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|
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
|
Versent
|
|
|
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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1725373
|
Feb 25th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
|
Open
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Versent (Australia)
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Engineer
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Sydney
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Don't trust the 5-star reviews here on Glassdoor
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Many great reviews here on Glassdoor. Oh wait, they've all been written around the same time. And they didn't get any upvotes, unlike the honest reviews...
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In one sentence: Building a good company culture is hard, losing it is easy.
Versent is not 'a family' any more and has lost its culture of transparency and openness years ago.
For example, people have tried to start an internal discussion about the points raised in the not-so-glorious reviews here on Glassdoor but were shut down. Instead, there are series of 5-star reviews appearing out of nowhere. I wouldn't even have thought that's possible when I joined Versent a few years ago. 'That's not how Versent works' is what I would have said.
When things don't go as planned they are kept behind closed doors. E.g. when we did not become "AWS Partner of the year" for the first time in many years it wasn't even worth a single word of internal communication. So much for openness.
These days, it's all about shifting the business to the right (investing in product work as this has a greater impact on the company value). Senior management has been filled up with people coming from big enterprises, having a very different take on how a company culture should look. So there's a 'shout-out' channel on Slack now, and everyone gets bombed with links to generic LinkedIn softkill training videos. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it seems a lot like someone trying to fix a problem they didn't even understand.
On the technical side, Versent is suffering from a massive churn. Most of the good people have left, those who remain are either part of the furniture or have made their peace with the changes and keep their heads low. Hiring standards have dropped. Unfortunately, shifting right has created silos of decoupled teams with virtually no communication, let alone collaboration.
I don't think it's a good work environment.
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-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
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-1.0
|
NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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4.0
|
1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1725373
|
Open
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Acknowledge reality and stop saying that Versent has an open culture of trust.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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0.0
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|
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|
May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
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May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
|
Versent
|
|
|
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private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1725373
|
Feb 23rd, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
|
Open
|
Versent (Australia)
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Design Lead | Brand & Marketing
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Melbourne
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|
Starting With Versent
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So far, all of the people I have encountered have been extremely helpful in assisting me to get up and running throughout my first two months with Versent.
There are great support mechanisms to lean on and people are kind, warm and open.
The majority of people work from home (as far as I can tell), and there appears to be a strong foundation to support that into the future. There are plenty of people that are also working in the office - so it's a good mix across the board depending on your preference.
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Being relatively new - I can't say I have encountered any cons as yet.
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1.0
|
POSITIVE
|
1.0
|
POSITIVE
|
1.0
|
APPROVE
|
1.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
4.0
|
5.0
|
|
1725373
|
Open
|
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0.0
|
[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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1.0
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|
|
|
May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
|
May 7th, 2021 10:36PM
|
Versent
|
|
|
|
private:versent
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=232089
|
Feb 23rd, 2021 12:00AM
|
Open
|
Open
|
The Purple Guys
|
Systems Administrator
|
Kansas City, MO
|
|
Great company to work for
|
|
Great culture and team spirit
|
Can get a bit hectic
|
1.0
|
POSITIVE
|
1.0
|
POSITIVE
|
1.0
|
APPROVE
|
0.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
5.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
4.0
|
|
232089
|
Open
|
|
0.0
|
[]
|
REGULAR
|
No
|
Yes
|
|
4.0
|
|
|
|
May 7th, 2021 10:37PM
|
May 7th, 2021 10:37PM
|
Versent
|
|
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