Need for Change & Less Board Involvement - Anonymous employee Frank Cowan Company Employee Review

-upper/middle management is open to new ideas and is looking for areas to improve -overall, compensation has been increased in order to be more competitive within the industry -great work-life balance - certain positions now have the opportunity to work from home, company floater day etc. -the company values its employees ie. free coffee provided by employer, company paid BBQs, Holiday Dinner, pension plan etc. -many opportunities to take on additional responsibilities and room to grow -employer pays for advanced education ie. CIP, CRM -for the most part, employees and management get along and work well together -upper management is down to earth and approachable/friendly

-some of the processes in place do not always keep employees accountable for the work they do or don't do. This can create frustration among employees who pull their weight while others are not - free riders.

This is from the experience as a co-op software dev working in the IT department. It was a decent place to start learning basic software development when I was there. It could have gotten better or worse since I finished. There wasn't ever an overwhelming amount of work to do, I could usually go at a relaxed pace.

There was occasionally some workplace drama and could sometimes be a stressful environment. Some of the technologies used were pretty outdated and the code was poorly documented so there was a lot of time spent figuring out how things worked. If I completed tasks too fast there would sometimes be a delay in recieving new tasks which forced you to work slower.