Quest Global reviews

-The company is not based in the US so there is a huge culture gap -Terrible on-boarding process -Poor pay for the positions as they are using you to make profit from the companies that hired them -Education Assistance is fake (a lottery across the US for 5 people to get up to $1000 for classes that directly apply to their work contract) -HR & Payroll are based in India, so nobody to bring issues to -No ability to move up based on merit, you just have to sit in a chair for a few years. It's easier to get in at a higher position than to be promoted from within. - Company overspent on bike to work events in 2016 so the Company Holiday Party was held in a bowling alley, on a Thursday afternoon (4pm), where your spouse was not invited. Only yourself. Just saying. - Hourly employees get only 3 days off a year - My aerospace customer has a paid holiday shutdown for the last week of the year. Since there isn't any work during that week, QuEST expects you to use 5 days of vacation time (assuming you have that much), take unpaid days off, or you have to make a good justification to upper management why you should work that week. - Floating holidays became fixed holidays on specific days to align with my customer's additional company holidays. I went from having 5 extra days off, to having to take days off like Good Friday and such. - Company culture rewards laziness - Working slower to have more hours to bill your customer is "encouraged"

-Pay sucks -Forget about ever getting a meaningful raise. -Instead of promoting you, you'll just get all the extra responsibilities and silly paperwork (and what an exorbitant waste of time that huge amount of paperwork is) to do with no extra compensation. You'll be promised a promotion for 1-2 years with it being held in front of you like a carrot, but you'll never actually get promoted. -Center manager (and everybody above him) spews an unbelievable amount of propaganda about how great Quest is despite there being almost no tuition reimbursement program (~7 employees MAXIMUM for all of North America are awarded tuition reimbursement every semester with no guarantee of ever getting it again). -Management appreciates inexperienced morons so much that they'll appoint somebody a center manager even if they've grossly mishandled a project so bad that they need to be moved away from the mishandled customer for business to continue with that customer. -Engineers are seen as objects at this company like a lamp or a chair. Experience is not valued, and management is surprised that hours run out before the project is done when inexperienced people are doing the work. You're expected to bill customers at the full engineering analysis rate even when you don't know anything. -Money is the absolute #1 priority to the detriment of everything else a good business thrives on. -This company is micro-managed from the CEO down to the center manager. -No center manage is allowed to think for themselves. They thoughtlessly follow their marching orders which impairs their faculties for independent thinking. -Center managers will lie and distort the truth to achieve their goals. -When half the center is getting laid off, center managers will still talk about how great quest is, and they'll promise severance packages, but find every excuse to not pay them out. -This company wants to be a big respected company so bad, but they don't value experience at all which results in high turnover which then prevents Quest from getting important analysis work. -Forget about new hire training. You're billing a customer (who is unaware of this) the same as a veteran engineer or you're walking out the door looking for a new job. -I could go on about how silly this company is.