They are also notorious for low salaries (even for the Little Rock area) and for consistently having yearly lay offs that aren't performance based, only to rehire the same people a month or 2 later.
If you think a culture of fear is a good company culture to have, then we have different definitions what that means.
I assure you that they do not have a good name in the local tech community there.
They recruited heavily from the IT program at my university in Arkansas to the point that everyone pretty much knew the recruiter.
Somewhere during my time there I walked up to this recruiter expecting them to be recruiting for Acxiom and was surprised to see them recruiting for someone else. The whole thing (including details I’m omitting) seemed odd to me, but this might explain it.
If you're talking about their main recruiter for YEARS, she went somewhere else a few years ago.
I think everyone even a little related to the SD/IT field in the state has her on their LinkedIn or has at least talked to her before. She's really great!
Np, just to be clear my experience is "insider's experience" in the sense of being involved with others in the tech scene in the area, not the first hand experience with the company myself. I've known and worked with plenty of people who have worked for the company, enough to know it wasn't a place I wanted to go. So take what I said with a grain of salt as well.
I merely wanted to offer a counter point based on what I know. There are definitely far worse companies out there.
If you think a culture of fear is a good company culture to have, then we have different definitions what that means.
I assure you that they do not have a good name in the local tech community there.