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No Gender Equality - Solutions Architect 7Summits Employee Review

2.0
14 Sept 2016
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Pros

There's free breakfast for the entire company for every new hire.

Cons

My hopes writing this review, is to grab 7Summits attention and take action to better their environment. Maybe expressing this matter through a more public channel will open the eyes of leadership. While I've been here, the most embarrassing part about this is women within the company have started initiatives, and spoke loudly about this matter and still no actions have been taken. Our questions and points of view are overlooked and ignored. It's difficult because this isn't about sexual harassment or wage discrimination. It's the glass ceiling - the institutional barrier preventing women advancing beyond a certain point. You want to talk about career path? For future employees or people that are interviewing, there isn't a career path here at 7Summits if you are a woman. 7Summits revolves around stereotypes and cultural norms, which underline certain expectations about gender. Women are talked over in meetings, and disrespected. Disrespect seeps into the workplace, and 7Summits will start to be looking at some serious consequences. Male employees ignore female coworkers and disregard their opinions, those on the receiving end of the disrespect tend to get defensive, making it difficult to trust anyone. Believe me when I say people feel the subtle hostility and everyone is working to watch their backs, teamwork is seriously compromised. Even though "rudeness" is wily it creates lack of cooperation, open hostility and distrust among coworkers. Has anyone noticed the high turnover here? Many people want to leave, even for a lesser position just because they’re unhappy in the hostile environment. 7Summits is not doing well financially and they take no accountability for their mistakes, rather they let go hard working people. These talented individuals shouldn't have to put up with a disrespectful workplace because they can relocate to a job where they feel respected. Do you know how much gossip goes around at 7Summits? People, would rather call in sick and take a mental health day than deal with the hostility. This stress causes physical emotional burnout, which then creates negativity, antisocial behavior and far less productivity. I hope this review opens eyes to the alpha males that make up the entire company. Listen to the women there, promote them. Create a place where people want to go into work everyday. Give people reasons to go out and brag they work at 7s. Believe me, right now the reputation of 7Summits is anything but good. I would not interview at this company until you hear from inside sources there's been major improvement.

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7Summits Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your personal view here. At 7Summits we always look internally and externally for such critiques to support making the 7Summits experience better. As a reminder, our collective door is always open and phones are always on - we embrace feedback from our employees and will continue to include that as we shape our collective future. 7Summits is an equal opportunity workplace for sure. Having reviewed the concerns outlined here, we take them very seriously. We are setting meetings with all of our female employees and most have been completed already. They were great discussions.. We have remarkable women doing amazing work for our company. And they love working here. Some of the comments shared (one from each, different female employee) are noted: “my male peers treat me with the utmost respect”; “my managers have offered me options in management should I have interest there”; ‘I’m more confident than ever in my work since joining 7Summits”; “my manager has coached me to be better in my craft”; “other female employees here are awesome to work with too!”. And more of the same. Nonetheless, some current or former colleagues clearly shared their concerns here so we are going on the record to say that this is not and should not be the culture here at 7Summits. We welcome any more direct insights there to address those types of concerns. As a final note, women in the workforce and women in management are important and ongoing topics in the technology sector as evidenced by ongoing attention in recent Mashable and TechCrunch articles – publications we read every week. 7Summits is absolutely engaged in diversity efforts and 3 of our last 9 hires were women (we look forward to when that reaches 50% or more). And our female employees have been recognized with promotions alongside their male counterparts during every promotion cycle.

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2.0
7 Dec 2018
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Pros

Core delivery team members, cool solutions to work on, client industries

Cons

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