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"Troubleshooting, architecting and managing systems is one of the most fascinating careers available. The ability to help others and be part of a larger picture where you can see your contribution to the whole is very rewarding"
Posted 11 years ago in Snoqualmie, WA
Senior Systems Administrator at AT&T
in Farmers Branch, TX

"I love the web development but no so much with systems administration. I like to be creative in web development and you can't do that per se in systems administration."

Person You Work For 3.7 / 5 People You Work With 3.7 / 5 Work Setting 3.7 / 5
Support You Get 3.7 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.7 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.7 / 5
Company Culture 3.7 / 5 Way You Work 3.7 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at First Data
in Austin, TX

"FundsXpress allowed me to manage production systems as I saw fit. I made many improvements to the security stature of their online presence."

Person You Work For 3.7 / 5 People You Work With 3.7 / 5 Work Setting 3.7 / 5
Support You Get 3.7 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.7 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.7 / 5
Company Culture 3.7 / 5 Way You Work 3.7 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Wyle
in Houston, TX

"The work is for the federal government which makes it unstable and limits opportunity for growth."

Person You Work For 3.3 / 5 People You Work With 3.3 / 5 Work Setting 3.3 / 5
Support You Get 3.3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3.3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3.3 / 5
Company Culture 3.3 / 5 Way You Work 3.3 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Global Link Solutions
in Sterling, VA

What do you like about working at Global Link Solutions?

"Work together as a team and love to learn new things and new technologies and very flexible"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Show your enthuthiasm and they want to hire who can work with ownership"

What don't you like about working at Global Link Solutions?

"It's a small environment and I couldn't introduce systems and tools like enterprise level and couldn't have experience in some of high tech. areas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Manage the company more aggressively and take some risks and invest more for people"

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 1 / 5 Work Setting 2 / 5
Support You Get 2 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Abbott Laboratories
in Waukegan, IL

What do you like about working at Abbott Laboratories?

"Great company, very good benefits, great people to work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be yourself and understand the dynamics of the company and understand the business."

What don't you like about working at Abbott Laboratories?

"I've been working at Abbott for a very long time. Need change and more money."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management is fine. I don't have any suggestion for the management."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Boeing
in Colorado Springs, CO

What do you like about working at Boeing?

"The team! The ability to assist in troubleshooting problems and coming up with solutions."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You need to be flexible in all aspects of the job. Things change frequently."

What don't you like about working at Boeing?

"I enjoy working for Boeing. I have recently become a little cautious about supporting government contracts though."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Please try to get us the tools and equipment we need to complete our tasks when we need them."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 5 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at National Rehab Equipment
in Pittsburgh, PA

What do you like about working at National Rehab Equipment?

"The culture and people. The overall ability to test new technologies"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"come in with your A game they will expect you to represent what is on your resume"

What don't you like about working at National Rehab Equipment?

"The unknown since being purchased by a bigger corporation and not knowing where and how I will fit in"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more open about what is going with the company so people are not worried and paranoid about job future"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at InsideValuation Partners
in Reno, NV

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Good Experience, but management was lacking"

What do you like about working at InsideValuation Partners?

"The Co-workers are great, and the location is great. It's a good family atmosphere."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Stay away from the CEO and CTO they are very political."

What don't you like about working at InsideValuation Partners?

"The management is disconnected from the workings of the company"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get a CEO and CTO, that know what they are doing. Fire the CFO!"

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Emory University
in Atlanta, GA

What do you like about working at Emory University?

"I like that we are working to actually make people's lives better."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Knowing others at the same organization can help you dramatically. Emory relies heavily on recommendations from existing employees."

What don't you like about working at Emory University?

"I think that my boss doesn't trust me enough to make the proper decisions. We are a small organization and we spend too much time making decisions by committees that are not qualified."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Less micromanagement. Trust the experts to be experts in their fields. Too many cooks make the soup bad."

Person You Work For 3 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 3 / 5 Way You Work 3 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Normandeau Associates
in Bedford, NH

What do you like about working at Normandeau Associates?

"The Team my boss and I have built for IT."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you are a Scientist this is your place work."

What don't you like about working at Normandeau Associates?

"The Pay cut we just had and the lack of leadership from Sr Mgt."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Run the company like a business and you have to have MUCH better communications. Notice the people who do the work and fire the people who don't"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 2 / 5
Company Culture 2 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at BAE Systems
in Peyton, CO

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Started out great."

What do you like about working at BAE Systems?

"The job is great however management does not make the work easy."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No comments for interviewing. The process if fairly straight forward."

What don't you like about working at BAE Systems?

"BAE tends to put people in positions they should not be in. So far the manangers I've come across are all wrong for the job and are costing the company money, employees, and lots of wasted time. A simple business course would explain their professional ineptness."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop putting tech's that show no management capabilities in charge of making business decisions and management spots. Stop putting friends in these spots. Hire business managers with business degrees strictly to handle the business."

Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Technology Service Professionals
in Dallas, TX

Please give us a one liner to describe this review.

"Highly experienced in hardware and software at many different levels."

What do you like about working at Technology Service Professionals?

"My experience in hardware was utilized strongly as well as my aptitude in software."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They are looking for sincere, motivated people with the skills to get the job done efficiently."

What don't you like about working at Technology Service Professionals?

"I worked as a contractor on a site that had too many cheifs with no one really responsible."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to stay involved in day to day operations even though they are remote to the work site.."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Parallels

What do you like about working at Parallels?

"Very beautiful exiting place for growing, people with whom I have worked are very smart"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"be professional, to improve constantly, improve the relationship in the team, to be beneficial for the whole company"

What don't you like about working at Parallels?

"I think that support for end-user was not very good"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would like to improve the interaction between teams of company"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 5 / 5 Work Setting 5 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 5 / 5
Company Culture 5 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Sunrise Communications
in Zurich, KS

What do you like about working at Sunrise Communications?

"Interesting tasks and challenges, good teamwork, excellent benefits, good relationship with my manager"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"just be straight forward and honest. Focus on your skills"

What don't you like about working at Sunrise Communications?

"sometimes burocratic processes, need some improvement. project processes are not all ITIL conform"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"improve work processes and make them more lean and faster. Better project coordination and management between the units"

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 3 / 5
Support You Get 4 / 5 Rewards You Receive 3 / 5 Growth Opportunities 3 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
Senior Systems Administrator at Oracle
in San Jose, CA

What do you like about working at Oracle?

"The technical challenges that got presented. The job was very technical."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The only thing I would recommend anyone is to be willing to work long hours."

What don't you like about working at Oracle?

"The only thing I did not like was the bureaucracy."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management was very competent. The only things I would suggest is to assign someone to be constantly looking for new technologies."

Person You Work For 5 / 5 People You Work With 4 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 5 / 5 Rewards You Receive 4 / 5 Growth Opportunities 4 / 5
Company Culture 4 / 5 Way You Work 5 / 5
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