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When the man who started the company quits in frustration, you know it's not a good place to be.
Started out of college after serving in the military.  Great work environment, small, could bring your dog to work.  Benefits were fantastic, but retirement matching slowly went downhill.  Traveled a lot to different military sites, but once that contract was up, you were floundering and begging anyone to give you work.
Co-workers some of the most brilliant people I've ever known.  Learned so much from them.  But management would not utilize them in their areas of expertise.  They would go out and hire more people.  
Made up resumes of non-existent employees to get contracts they had no idea how to do.  Kept contracts going by using "Added Value" method, but nothing was added.  Very little product delivered.
Good for new graduates to learn the ropes and gain good experience from some fantastic people, after that, LEAVE!!!
Not one single person I knew when I was there lasted more than 5 years with the company.  Very sad situation.

Executive leadership at the CEO level was very poor.  Senior leadership was reluctant to listen and take advice on how to improve business
At the Senior CEO level, an atmosphere of arrogance, that they knew better.
Thus within 5 years, CTC went into a downward spiral
the numbers of employees went from approximately 2,500 to less than 300, Revenue dropped from approximately $265M to less than $80M.

Very sad - an example of how the mighty fall,.  If the Senior leadership would of listened and taken advice on how to improve CTC, they would be in a outstanding business position, 

Everything that was predicted, did occur and within 5 years CTC experienced unprecedented losses of personnel and business.

The CTC Senior Leadership was advised on multiple occasions to change but chose not to implement these advised changes which were communicated multiple times but were received negative and penalized those who tried to advise CTC Senior Leadership. 

The advice that was given and not adhered to  and communicated to the CEO did happen as predicted.  This was very disappointing to see,
 as CTC could of carried on the legacy of success instead of disappointing failure.  How the mighty fall.

Enjoyed the work I was doing and the team I worked with. Benefits and ability to manage my program were great. A lot of brilliant employees and hard workers. I learned much and felt rewarded. Had it not been for severe DoD budget cuts I'd still be with the company. However, there was a large disconnect between what the CEO said publically and what the leadership below him acted on. The company routinely oversold its capabilities and took a shotgun approach to contracts. Overhead costs due to operations at corporate HQ were very high and made contract competition very tough. A lot of the leadership culture ingrained with easy government money and not used to hard competition. Very little constructive guidance from corporate leadership other than a constant push to make money. The how was left out in any guidance and any failure was never allowed to reflect upwards. This company is going to have a tough time unless it relooks its director and VP level duties, overhead costs, and core competencies.

CTC has been a great place to work.  It has provided opportunities for professional growth, the chance to work with some wonderfully gifted and talented people, and a flexible work environment.  

The best part of my time working for CTC has been the people I've gotten to work with on both the CTC and client side.  I have made connections that will remain long after my employment ends.

The hardest part of working for any Government contractor is the contract process and having to wonder every year if your job is secure.  Will your company be successful?  If your company is not successful, will they have a place for you on a different contract?  I think CTC is relatively proactive in providing contract updates.  However, there isn't much insight on plans if the rebid is not successful.  Of course, being dependent on those contracts I would appreciate all of the visibility I can get.

There is no work life balance at Concur.  They are generous with their vacation for new hires (5 weeks), but good luck trying to use it.  I was so overwhelmed with the project load and lack of training or support from management that I would dare take many days off at all.  
On top of that, I found out my colleagues weren't tracking the actual hours they were putting in on a weekly basis to manager their heavy loads, so I looked slow and incompetent to upper management as I was actually putting down my real hours of 50-65 hours a week.  Sad to be part of a work environment that sees co-workers willing to lie and cheat so that they look better than you in the eyes of the company.  I would not recommend this company to anyone.

The goal of Concurrent Technologies corporation, or so I would gather from having worked there for 10 years, is to get as much money from the government as possible while doing as little work as possible.  If you have the benefit of being able to work on internal projects on overhead, you don't have to deal with that directly; however, I don't think that this is a great place for people to start a career anymore.  The government never actually puts anything they made into production. Or at least very rarely.

Unless you are working for the specific Johnstown Office, it is very difficult to get promoted, speak to upper level management, and to relay information to the appropriate people. They say they strive for an environment where people can get job advancement, but when you ask for training, it gets cancelled without you being told, and when you ask to take on new tasks, it gets stuck "in the chain" for months on end. Management in the satellite offices is not productive, either.

A typical day at work normally a 8 - 6pm job with conditions being austire since its in Afghanistan. Constant surveillance of NATO contractors ensuring Statement of Work compliance.
Management is top notch, co-workers are diverse of backgrounds.
Hardest part of the job is being deployed, and long periods from home in a hostile environment.
Best part of the job is being a force muliplier for NATO to ensure contract compliance, creating a change culture to ensure a quality service that is being paid for NATO is what is being delivered.

A typical day at work was been greeted by everyone in the morning and evening. What I learned with this company is to develop good quality training to prepare Soldiers in war and peacetime situation. Management had great communication with their workers and gave incentives for a job well done. My co-workers treated me like family and if I have any questions, they were more than happy to help. The hardest part of the job was nothing, every task was planned out ahead of time. The most enjoyable part of the job was a stress free environment.

CTC was the best job I ever had in regards to job responsibilities, work culture, compensation, benefits, work/life balance, etc.

The hardest part of my job at CTC was pipe-lining candidates for contingent positions.

The best part of my job was the awesome work culture and manager support.

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