Job Title: manager
Location: United States
Submitted on: 29-Jan-04
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ISS is a young company with very young employees. Until 2002 or so, it
was run by a bunch of ambitious and motivated upstarts and it grew
rapidly. Gradually, older executives and leaders were hired to "lead
the way" into the future. What this caused is a clash between the older
generation of ISS'ers and between those being hired.
There are two main groups of employees at ISS: Those who have been
there for 4 years or more, and those who have been there less than 6
months. Most of those who have been these for 4 years or more all
contemplate leaving and indeed do, once they find another job
(sometimes with other ISS'ers who have left the company). Those who
remain are somewhat bitter by the new folks who are prototype go-
getters and who, honestly, are showing up the lack of talent possessed
by the older employees.
It is a good place to work in today's economy as it's in a fairly good
financial situation with strong leadership. On the other hand, there is
a lot of attitude and back-stabbing that comes with the young age of
its employees. Several employees refuse to work with other employees
they dislike on a personal level. Unfortaunetly, this is not seen (or
perhaps ignored) and stopped by Management. It seems to be a given of
the culture. You must also beware of friendships between managers and
employees. There have been several cases of employees being fired
because they were disliked personally by their managers evben though
they did excellent work.
Several groups internally socialize after hours, but it depends on
which group you are in. In some groups there are an abundance of
cliques that make it difficult to work professionally with them, but
most people are friendly. Everyone in Marketing continues to watch
their backs since a new director in Marketing started who is not from
the United States and is a major *itch.
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