Great place to work! They care about staff and clients - Avis employé Consultant Innovative Computing Systems

I worked for two years as a Sr. Systems Engineer at the San Francisco office and it was honestly one of the best work experiences I've had. Engineers (in SF/LA at least) are paid on an hourly basis, that alone made this job AMAZING. Anyone experienced in this area knows the amount of after hours work involved; actually getting paid for your after hours work is far far far better than comp time for a salaried employee. I remember putting in a 70 hour week recovering an entire server farm due to a ransomware outbreak and didn't complain once, how many salaried employees can say that? Benefits are good. Pay is good (I can't stress enough how great being hourly is). The job has a good work/life balance with the option to work from home when you aren't needed on-site. I can only speak for SF but management was great. You don't have to worry about micromanagement as long as you were actually doing your job. Want to work from home this week? Fine, you won't hear a complaint as long as you are meeting your billable quota and making the client happy. A lot of MSP's using the term "consultant" but this is one of the few companies where you are actually treated like one. I moved out of state so I had to leave the company, if not I'm sure I would still be chugging away happy as a clam.

We had a lot of turnover in a short period of time in 2015 (see negative reviews), upper management didn't really address this with most of the engineers; this left a lot of us with a poor perception of the company. In SF it wasn't so bad since we were a tight knit group but it really affected the LA office. I think the company has bounced back since then and it was doing fine when I left in early 2016. Project management is non-existant, this is left up to the engineers. Personally this was great, for some engineers not so much. Many of the larger projects could have really benefited from a true project manager.

Innovative Computing Systems is well known in the legal industry. It's difficult to say if this will be a pro going forward though, especially when clients realize how many employees have left and the talent that has gone out the door.

Over the past several years this company has been nothing short of a crazy rollercoaster ride, with way more downs than ups. There is very little strategic vision, focus, and the management team has been just terrible. The only place management is driving this company is into the ground. They care very little about doing the right thing for the majority of their employees, especially those working the hardest to make the company a better place. Over and over again promises were made to employees that fell by the wayside. Instead of working to fully understand the issues at hand, either knee jerk decisions were made, or excuses were handed out. Technically this company uses it clients as a test bed way too much. Instead of understanding a technology internally, they use their client’s environment to figure it out causing a lot more pain than necessary. If your thinking about employment here, continue your search for now. Not sure if this company will ever turn around, but now is certainly not the right time to join.