shoddy management - Sales and Business Development Icron Employee Review

The best that can be said was that paycheques were always paid on time via direct deposit and good office location.

The negative reviews in this forum are entirely accurate, especially the ones regarding management/ownership. Icron Technologies used to be a publicly traded company on the TSX Venture, but in 2011, the current management group/directorship bought out all the shares to de-list the company and take it private (most of the company's private shareholder owners don't even work at Icron). Openness and transparency are characteristics that are incompatible with this management group's agenda. This company likely cares far more about its technology patents than its people. Traditionally, there has been very little investment in their employees, in their overall business processes and in their overall business infrastructure. Any new ideas that would require investment dollars would be shot down so thinking outside the box is a virtual impossibility at this employer. When one of the managers tells you point blank that "you should be giving us reasons why we don't have to spend money", that pretty much tells you all you need to know about this company's ideology. There is also definitely above average employee turnover, and as such, the company is largely unable to attract and retain talent. There is a corporate culture of "information silos". Their products also very much serve a niche market which means that company growth, career growth and expansion are not realistic probabilities. Please be clear in the understanding that this is not anything like a "tech startup" company in the "Silicon Valley" mold. It is nowhere close to that.

Caring team & good product - I am writing because the reviews on this site are not fair. If people knew the folks I worked with, they would see what stellar human beings they are. Was a privilege to work there. Would not have gotten the role I have today without the mentorship I got from the senior team. Thank you Icon.

Smaller company so have to get used to the entrepreneurial environment