Pros
I have been working for Colibrium for more than 7 years. Colibrium is probably not the best company to work for. However there are still several reasons why I would like to continue to work for Colibrium. The main reason is the people. Mainly if you are a developer or technical person, you would love to work with the smart, technically strong, and very talented group of people in Colibrium. Even the founders of the Company came from highly technical background.
I like challenges. Since the Company is still growing, it goes through many challenges. Most of the time I get all the reasonable help I need from upper management to work on any challenging tasks. Since Colibrium has very smart group of people, we successfully complete almost all the challenging tasks almost 100% of the time.
As a developer, I always like to learn new things. Colibrium does not offer many professional training on new technologies. However, there are many opportunities to learn new thing in the Company. Sometimes it’s technical and sometimes it’s non-technical. In either case, I can directly apply what you learn in client projects, under good, reliable leadership and guidance. This is, in a way, better than paid professional training.
Colibrium is also not the company where you get similar benefits as Google or Microsoft. It’s a growing company. The benefits, it offers, are easily competitive to most of the similar size companies. One of the benefits, that I like, is the 3 days’ work from home policy. Other than competitive health, vision, dental benefits, it also offers good 401K benefit that matches dollar to dollar.
Colibrium went through some hard time beginning of this year mostly due to recent healthcare reform. Surely that concerned me a lot. However, I have to say, the company came back pretty strongly. We got 3 new clients recently. In the health insurance industry getting 3 clients in a short time is a pretty big deal. We also started hiring in all roles again. This definitely helps to get more confidence on the Company. According our recent company conference, we are profitable again. Colibrium reinstated all the lost benefits and also adjusted salary for those who qualified. That’s the first thing it did after becoming profitable again.
Colibrium may not be the best place to work for. Also it may not be the place where you get the best benefits on market. I still enjoy working here and will continue to work for Colibrium. I am sure there many people in the company who would say the same.
Cons
I think communication is one of the areas where Colibrium can improve. I have noticed few times that upper management have good intentions but it does not get communicated all the way.
