access control specialist

control officer

security escort

construction laboratory technician

security officer

CENCORE LLC

EASILY the worst experience I’ve had in 30 years in the business with the most abysmal program management I’ve ever encountered.  They did nothing but give all their problems to the field-level supervisors to figure out and would get irate when they didn’t.  One thing they were good at doing was insulating and protecting themselves from the executive team by constantly fielding the same stories that field-level supervision was the problem.  Here’s the catch; they are having problems at practically every single site on the contract.  At some point, the executive team will figure out that this is indicative of a PROGRAM level problem by PROGRAM management.   A 53% attrition rate in your first year is not a field-level problem.  It’s a PROGRAM problem.  Most of the workforce was on the same contract with a different company.  Back then morale was extremely high, and the workforce was happy.  It only took a year to completely demoralize and destroy that.  Program managers did nothing but create obstacles, task saturate, and micro-manage at levels unfathomable. If any of them had a PMP (they don’t) they would know that the PRIMARY job of a program manager is to eliminate obstacles so the job can get done.   The program management at this place did the exact opposite.  The day I submitted my resignation was one of the happiest next to the birth of my children.  Most of the positive reviews come from Utah – their HQ.   You’re not seeing it come from the field.    If you’re a veteran, they will exploit your work ethic.  You served; you deserve better and not to be treated like you’re still in uniform where you can expect to do more with less while your supervisors throw everything THEY should be doing to your level.  

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing. Company does not respond to employees regarding scheduling in a timely manner. Makes very poor decisions without any planning or impact to customer assessments.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dealing with a very ineffective and untrained management and supervision staff. They are clueless. The most unskilled non-employee focused staff I've ever encountered 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Cencore places people into leadership positions who have no proven leadership skills and are extremely awful in communicating professionally and effectively with staff

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The rank in file workers are great inspite of poor management

It is 12 hour shift. A typical day at work is working with a team to determine which patrol you do on every even hour [2, 4, 6, etc.]. 

I learned great leadership from here and a few mistakes on my previous job. the bad part is this job is not related to career growth in any way or form.

the workplace culture is very nice. They try to give me hours when the company lowered my hours from full time [40 hours] to part time [12 hours a week if I am lucky]. 

the hardest part of the job is adjusting at first. This work culture is for individuals who are retired military. I am not retired military. In addition, my hours were reduced from full time to part time [20 hours] to non-existence [0 to 12 hours] in less than 3 months.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working with technology, ie , Cloud Networks, VoIP phones, firewalls, switches.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Standing up 4 networks in a limited time frame.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Company is hands off, vacation and pay got screwed up. I think they're trying to do too much

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Read emails, see if there are any meetings, trouble shooting any problems. Planning work to be accomplished

The pay is good while you’re working.
They will not actually pick up or sponsor your top secret clearance.
They will tell you they will and will lie to your face. 
Especially if you don’t actively have one. They will tell you they will put you in and won’t even start the paperwork after a year. They will let you work and work. As soon as they hear an audit is coming they will let everyone go so they don’t have to worry about legality. It’s really easy when you have major contracts like QTS backing you and not worry about federal accreditation standards 

I would rate them a 0 out of 5 for everything if that was a option! They don’t care about their employees. They constantly have bad management who also harass employees. They don’t play employees enough money at all. You can get a regular job at Walmart or target and probably make the same amount or more. The work place is a toxic environment and your coworkers would probably stab you in the back if they also got a chance. It’s just better to not work here at all?

What is the best part of working at the company?
The flexibility and my co-workers..

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
when you first start, you have to figure out a few work assignment locations. Most time the directions are up to date .

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I liked the people I worked with.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Get to your location assignment early , check in the the Lead, and do your job.

No advancement; many promises, little to no returns on them; management is there to ensure you fill a seat; workflow is steady but job security is insecure, depending on where the contract is at; program manager was great, but had little power to change anything; apparent that higher-ups just wanted govt money

A typical day was spent wondering what they expected from their personnel because they were only there for a short time.
Learning was what you picked up on your own.
management there wasn't any to speak of.
I don;t believe there was any work place culture.
The hardest thing about the job was going to work.
The best part of the job was leaving.

CenCore is a very interesting program. They are very straight out of the military friendly and will offer a solid paying job with little to no actual experience. Ghat being said, I’ve heard from others as well as experienced for myself the pay issues on my contract. There are no written tax or paycheck statements and no way of tracing the rate owed. 

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