iCetana Employee Reviews
Out of 57 iCetana employee reviews, 73% were positive. The remaining 27% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping iCetana improve their work culture. The Engineering team, with 75% positive reviews, reports the best experience at iCetana compared to all other departments at the company.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Probably the worst experience of my professional life and I am looking for an exit
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
The leadership team has a genuine open door policy and do not shy away from hard questions or difficult discussions
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They seem to have good business and technical understanding.
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Clear communications under new leadership, shared approach to challenges and willingness to make tough decisions on under-performing team members. Good communications of strategy, goals and vision.
Open to new ideas, focused on the task at hand.
Flexible and realistic - technically competent as well as market-savvy
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
We need clearer direction and communication
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Listening to people with actual knowledge, rather than the opinions of people who have no knowledge but give answers they want to hear.
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iCetana and its leaders have no sense of purpose other than "To become a rich company". iCetana's Culture, Common Goals and Values have been decimated by egos and personal gains, its foundation staff have in fact long departed. A very sad affair indeed.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Flexibility to do some work from home when necessary.
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Market competitive compensation for working on world leading technology in a collegiate environment (much changed in the past 9 months)
Tech companies struggle to compete with natural resource behemoths on a pure dollar basis. The rewards in a tech company come from the varied and wide scope of work you can be involved in, the relationships that you develop, and the excitement of seeing the technology making a change in the world.
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Salary is generous. Company is flexible with hours and leave.
Organisation needs to make good on commitments about stock options
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Promise options to come on but find ways not to give them and pay keeps getting cut because of poor sales performance
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As a foundation staff member, my stake in the company does not reflect, by any stretch, the effort, commitment and personal sacrifices I made since the company's inception. Worse still, unexercised options have since expired and not been extended.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Great bunch of people but there is a lot of churn
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The team appreciates the value of getting stuff done all while having a good laugh. Team members genuinely support each other and hold each other to account to encourage each member to be the best version of themselves.
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Good technical skills and willing to help out and work as a team.
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Team all pulls together, shared responsibility and willingness to help each other out
well-organised, strongly motivated and clear directions
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Firstly, most need to re-assess their position and understand that iCetana is a tech company and not a mining or oil and gas gig. Secondly, decisions are made out of thin air, with no understanding whatsoever of the market space and technology sets, by clueless individuals.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Sense of team work, get in and get the job done. I work with some good people who I like.
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We celebrate wins together, there is positive feedback for a job well done, we are encouraged to take risks under the new management. The company is very customer focused now
Everyone's voice is heard. We work together to achieve goals. Individual needs are accommodated.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Get rid of CEO and COO
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'Open plan' style layout simply isn't working. Lots of noise and needless disruption
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There is no culture. Leaders are encouraged to operate as dictators. For example, new staff members are hired without consultation and the team only finds out on the day the person starts. There is no safe place, nowhere to speak or be heard. iCetana needs true leadership.
What did you like most about the interview process?
The coffee was the best thing
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straightforward, easy and trouble-free - no ambiguity
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The importance of cultural fit is well understood. Interviews always include people whom you will be working with directly.
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The interview was friendly and informal in style.
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Multiple parties involved, challenges and opportunities were clearly conveyed
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Being able to work with advanced technology and meet customer needs.
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Team environment, sales wins, technology challenges overcome
Customers sharing their success stories with us.
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Working in my team and being able to achieve our goals.
Challenging, interesting tasks linked to real-world outcomes
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
CEO and COO try to bully and they get rid of people that challenge their way of thinking rather than embracing alternative approaches
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All it would take is to re-assess your very reason for being. What is your true Vision aside from "to become rich?" When you have a sense of purpose based on true Values and Goals, success comes, has it did in the early days. when self-gain is above your very reason for purpose, you get failure.
What do you like best about your company?
freedom to work in my own style
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Seeing the changes we make for our customers.
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
- implement HR processes - pay reviews - longer-term career management
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Reduced sales lead time and greater partner network.
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