1,957 Systems Administrator Reviews
Submit a ReviewWhat do you like about working at Radford University?
"collegial, friendly, very open and co-operative environment where many people haveing specialised skills and experience equally contribute to University's IT projects and increase productivity and efficiency. Continual learning environment in all aspects of Computer Science and Technology."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"must enjoy one's chosen career IT field and be progressive, creative with latest IT technologies. Coding, Linux, networking principles and fundamentals important. Team player, collegial. expert documention."
What don't you like about working at Radford University?
"state wage is preset for this engineer position at Radford University and cannot be changed."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"considering to develop more virtual solutions with latest technologies and HW, SW."
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"Working in a plant was a real change of pace."
What do you like about working at Weld Racing?
"The IT department was small and we were a well integrated group of guys."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Bring an gas mask because breathing the air will likely cause you to get ill."
What don't you like about working at Weld Racing?
"The plant itself, it was just dirty and the air quality was poor."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Get your inventory issues straightened out or producing wheels will never profit."
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"A total corporate environment but still fun."
What do you like about working at Birch Communications?
"I enjoyed the responsibility of managing people and using new technologies."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Fitting in will be easy as most of your team are probably just like you."
What don't you like about working at Birch Communications?
"The company was financially unstable and when through bankruptcy at the time of my hire."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Double check those figures and make sure your bottom line is good."
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"It is a great environment!"
What do you like about working at Symphony Space?
"I love the performing arts and I love how Symphony Space makes the arts available to everyone for little or no cost. Also, they provide a space for artist both new and seasoned to come and be with others in a creative space"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be prepared to be willing demonstrate that you know more then the position is interviewing for. As a non profit you get to where different hats. Which is a excellent opportunity in my book."
What don't you like about working at Symphony Space?
"I do not like that I cannot get full time status. As a non profit it's difficult to come up with the funding necessary. The staff does an excellent job at keeping the organization running."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"More team building activities ensuring that people within the organization acknowledge titles and positions."
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"The thing that might convince me to leave is my eagerness for more knowledge."
What do you like about working at Entertainment Distribution Co.?
"Environment is like no other company I've worked for before."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Oh, a lot. Don't show off, they don't like that. Keep your balance and if there's something you don't know at interview time say it then rather than later. Nobody's going to blame you. Act like you would want someone to act towards you and you'll be fine."
What don't you like about working at Entertainment Distribution Co.?
"Lack of someone working in the same field as I am. A second opinion would always be welcomed."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"This management Probably none, I have no complains. I've never been asked why this was spent on that, they've always trusted my decisions and I feel in debt to them and it makes me more responsible in my decisions."
What do you like about working at Lincoln University?
"It's a family, the family values are above other things."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Have good intentions. Don't try to do everything yourself. And trust at least some people."
What don't you like about working at Lincoln University?
"Tactics. Although incredibly powerful and great, they can be deceiving."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Show source code or include others in translation of inside information."
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"Unsupervised, quiet, with a dash of dishonesty."
What do you like about working at Abacast?
"Diverse and remarkably skilled and confident skills. Casual environment, and people genuinely happy to be there."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Don't bash either side of the Linux / Windows competition, and acknowledge that they are all tools and can be all used to build imaginitive and rock-solid computing systems."
What don't you like about working at Abacast?
"Lack of team synchronization, lack of the documentation of tribal knowledge and technical decisions being made by people who don't understand it."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"More involvement. More deferring to people who's job it is to understand technical things. Tone down the ego."
What do you like about working at AT&T?
"Good team, good environment, ATT has a reputable name, not too far from home."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be confident, speak what you know and be honest, get to know the company you are applying for."
What don't you like about working at AT&T?
"No room for advancement, cannot expand my skillset in the industry."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Hire more techs to support the 6000 clients we have on and off site."
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"Company was good, however the department I worked in was appalling."
What do you like about working at Research In Motion?
"The company is currently under a lot of strain and is clawing to regain its market share. This stress is felt throughout the company"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"RIM had a remarkable product 10 years ago but have been unable to keep up with current market trends. Their investments in outdated technologies and inability to even match competitors with their features is causing them to lose significant market share. They bleed money in areas that should be simple to control. Parking, for example, was a major issue. They hired a team of people to address the parking issue by allowing them to build parking structures, repave and paint parking lots, etc. But the building manager would take it upon themselves to do this same job and waste money/time in the process when there was a dedicated team who could have taken this task. They spend ridiculous amounts of money on things that aren't of any significance. An offer letter, for example, was send by Fedex and printed on very expensive paper. The cost for sending an offer letter to a potential employee was over $50. This could have been alleviated by sending the offer letter via email (common practice) or having the potential employee drive in to pick it up. Many many other areas that money is being wasted in the business. And this cuts into profits and employee benefits/raises."
What don't you like about working at Research In Motion?
"The department I was in was poorly managed by someone who was not ready for management. He built the department from the ground up and was unable to relinquish control to his employees. He would need to be involved in every small detail and would not allow any work to be accomplished without his involvement"
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Step down. He was not ready to be a manager. He was too keen on getting credit for the accomplishments and didn't take any accountability for the failures. He would throw his own employees under the bus when there was a mistake (often times in a meeting with a Director infront of the other employees). And when something went right, he would make sure he got the Kudo's in private and not allow anyone else to bask in the accomplishment."
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"Great company to work for. But they went bankrupt"
What do you like about working at Gabae Industries?
"Very friendly people to work with. Management was always available when you had an issue either via phone, email or face to face. Very knowledgeable management and willing to help in any way they could to get the task/project completed."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"I doubt anyone is interviewing because GABAE went bankrupt. I"
What don't you like about working at Gabae Industries?
"They went bankrupt and were unable to continue. There was a lot of hard feelings from some employees as they were let go."
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"Very controlled environment where ideas for improvements were not accepted"
What do you like about working at Aversan?
"It was a job and paid the bills allowing me to eat food"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If you're interviewed by the CEO in a round one, entry level job interview this is usually a bad sign."
What don't you like about working at Aversan?
"Very controlled environment. Ideas were presented that were dismissed without any discussion. Ideas that weren't filtered through the Tech Lead were dismissed entirely. Ideas that were filtered through the Tech Lead were never presented to upper management for approval. The IT department as a whole had a terrible reputation for not getting things completed on time, implementing the incorrect technologies and not being surgical with their execution. This was mainly because upper management was heavily entwined in the day to day operations of IT and would push down solutions that weren't required."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Stop leading the company through fear and intimidation. You have hired employees to work and do their job, put some faith in their abilities and allow them to do what they were hired for."
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"Pays you 10 k less then average and works you to death."
What do you like about working at JW Aluminum?
"Nice People, most are always willing to help. Good amount of vacation time"
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"If you get hired on the 3 month temp to hire deal don expect to be hired for 12 months and they will pay you less money as a salaried employee then as a temp."
What don't you like about working at JW Aluminum?
"Never getting to go to your doctors appointments, spending thousands of dollars each year to not go to the doctor. Hearing co workers who sit on butt all day complain about getting paid too much to do this work."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"Send users with no Team work abilities to WIN again or fire them"
What do you like about working at Exelis?
"The pay is the main reason I excepted this contract."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Speak with confidence and be detailed with your answers. The more knowledge and skill sets you have will make you valuable to the company."
What don't you like about working at Exelis?
"I dont care for the location and the time away from my family."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"If you take care of your employees, they will work harder and will produce the best product for the company."
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"The management is very concerned about its reputation personally."
What do you like about working at Magna Seating?
"The compensation. Also, it's nice working in an engineering environment. It's what I've become used to."
Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?
"Be yourself, put your best foot forward, and make sure you smile."
What don't you like about working at Magna Seating?
"The management is controlling and takes advantage of its position to make itself out to be the good guy in all stressful situations."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"The management there has quite an authoritative management style. People working in today's workplaces are no longer loading pig-iron so-to-speak. Time-management studies went out the door in business management nearly a century ago because of the psychological effect they had on workers."
What do you like about working at Sysco Food Service?
"I enjoyed the team mentality, I worked with a great group of people who worked together to achieve a common goal of providing superior service to our customers."
What don't you like about working at Sysco Food Service?
"I disliked the poor management above team leader level. Sysco was top-heavy with managers and directors."
What suggestions do you have for management?
"I enjoyed my tenure at Sysco and have nothing to say, good or bad, about Syscos managers."
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