Prós
Some very talented staff spread amongst the company, sadly they are rarely given the chance to succeed due to CSI's lack of interest in it's own people.
Contras
- CSI, it's board, and it's investors only care about one thing, money. This comes at the cost of the hundreds of hard workers who are taken advantage of, underpaid and treated like numbers. I don't think I've ever worked somewhere where I felt less valued or recognised than I did at CSI.
- One of the worst commission plans you will ever see in IT Sales, plus each year the targets get more and more unrealistic. Targets & Comms plans usually come out 3 months into the year...
- CSI continue to eat up companies, many of which are fully functioning, have incredible work cultures, talented staff and great benefits. None of these are integrated properly and within months the majority of the staff will be gone. Organic growth is not possible due to the unbelievably high level of turnover which is only to be expected.
- Hilariously, we all took pay cuts to "keep the company afloat" during the pandemic. The Sales team were given a commission gate if they wanted to earn any commission at all, probably the most demotivating and calculated strategy at saving money I can imagine. Interestingly in that time of economic uncertainty, CSI were able to front the cash to acquire yet another business!
- This company will get away with paying you as little salary as possible for as long as possible, it will show no interest in recognising your talent or hard work until it's walking out the door. Pay reviews will usually be met with a flat no, unless of course you've handed in your notice and then anything becomes possible. Expect to earn less and less each year as inflation steadily rises and your salaries and earning capabilities don't.
- There are no obvious structures in place to help people progress or move into more senior roles, the policy seems to be to hire externally which rarely works out.
- The Senior Leadership Team have some extremely experienced and hardworking individuals, but are completely detached from the rest of the company. They are almost always too busy to help and any support is virtually non existent.
- CSI consistently say they are working on building the culture, but fail to improve it in every instance. Things are getting progressively worse as more and more of highly skilled employees are leaving.
