Tech job bait 'N' switch - Service Desk Technician Pluralsight Employee Review

2.0
13 Dec 2022
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Pros

Unlimited PTO. Friendly culture. Good natured individual contributors and lower managers.

Cons

The message of "room for growth" is not true. Managers hire their friends without giving the hard working peons a chance. The spending habit is OUT OF CONTROL. Each employees laptop costs between $3k-4k, and because "we want to attract talent." Meanwhile 75% of these employees do all their work in a browser window which would run just as well on a chromebook. The SASS spend is outrageous as well. PS is paying for 4-5 software products that all do the same thing, when it could easily be consolidated. Then lets talk about the monolith to the founders pride that is the biggest corporate building in Utah in terms of square footage. And they are using less than 30% of it. You want to save money? Try any of the above options rather than ruining the Christmas of over 400 families. Say hello to the ghost of Christmas Past for me.

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Pluralsight Response
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Thank you for the review. Pluralsight is committed to equitable hiring and we have solid processes in place to ensure that the best candidate is hired for the job. Though we do consider and often hire referrals, all candidates must go through the same interview process to be hired. The decision to reduce our headcount was not taken lightly, but was unfortunately necessary to ensure we could meet our business objectives. The decision was made as part of a careful and extensive assessment of all cost savings measures designed to drive efficiencies and retain as much of our amazing talent as possible. This includes implementing many of the cost savings ideas you mentioned, including leasing a portion of our Draper office in Utah, reviewing our other real estate in light of our growing remote culture, and reducing and consolidating our SaaS spend over time. - Sincerely, Will

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