Aquent Developer reviews

3.0

50% would recommend to a friend

(11 total reviews)
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John H. Chuang

50% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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3.0
Apr 24, 2017

On an island in Boston

Recommend
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Pros

Cool office, good location, free coffee. Health insurance is pretty good

Cons

Pretty dry work with lots of legacy code. The team in Boston is very small with little to no culture. No events during / after work. Most of the engineers work from home, probably due to the last 2 points. No leadership in Boston (all management is in North Carolina). No seating chart which seems to make people be less social to neighbors. Doesn't seem like the company is set up to attract high level engineers, or grow them. Pay is alright, but you don't get a bonus or stock options since Aquent is a private company.

5.0
Oct 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has the best benefits package I've ever had from an employer, and my managers on the software development team were also very accommodating of PTO requests and so on. After working for Aquent for a couple of years, I was permitted to work remotely, and everyone I worked with was very helpful in making the transition work. There were a lot of interesting projects that would come up from time to time, and being on a small team, you have a good chance of getting to develop a broad skill set. The developers have a relatively free rein to choose the solutions they feel are best, which has both good and bad aspects, but at least ensures that your technical worth won't dwindle while working on the team. The developers and associated business and QA teams work together in a very collaborative way.

Cons

The software development team is rather small, so there aren't a lot of opportunities for upward mobility if that's your thing. There was also a bit of employee churn (developers) at the time I was there that also had an impact on overall direction and technology with the codebase. Having a lot of different requests and projects in the pipeline combined with changes in technology can be annoying from a strict software engineering perspective.

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