Digitize reviews about "pay"

Did more than customer service/office administration. Had to fill towels and bathroom tissues, take dishes to dishwasher, and use my own car to go to post office with no mileage provided.

The pay is well under par for the position. Overtime expected/required. CEO is unprofessional.

They fired me after one month for something completely out of my control. CEO did not even have the grace to tell me, had his second in command do it. I did good work, they even lead the conversation complimenting me, but then fired me and walked me out to humiliate me. The hiring process for this company is absolutely absurd. Word and Excel testing, typing tests, an IQ test, and even further testing for the Software Engineers. My interview took six hours, but they often take longer, ESPECIALLY if you are applying for their Software Engineer role. I have seen people sit there for seven or eight hours, even when the hiring team has already decided that they are not going to be hiring the person who is interviewing, they still let them keep wasting time. The pay is barely above minimum wage, with overtime available (and basically mandatory), and bonuses (that I never got to see.) The office atmosphere is at times fun, but mostly robotic, and upper management was helpful at first, but I'm beginning to see that they really do not care about anyone. My advice, as someone who handled scheduling interviews for this company, is not to bother. They hardly hire anyone, and the people they do bother hiring are often quickly let go. In my month there, they fired at least four people, and one other quit. They will not hire you if your IQ is not in the 98th percentile, they will not hire you if you take longer than one hour to do their Arduino challenge, they will not hire you if you are not jumping for joy at the opportunity to work overtime, and with the length of the interview process and the danger of getting fired over one misstep, I'd say it's not even worth the gas it takes to get to the office. Look elsewhere. They don't care about their employees in any capacity.

To start with the interview process is very long and arduous. You come in and immediately get bombarded with multiple long personality tests. Then they do an interview with an employee, who may or may not even be relevant to the position you are applying for. After this interview you are once again subjected to a long test for your IQ. If you are applying for a software development role you must complete an Arduino challenge which can take anywhere from 3-5 hours. And if you manage to wade your way through this swamp of tests then you are rewarded with a two-day unpaid "bit-banging" challenge, with all the fun of being employed with none of the pay. Now if you can complete all the aforementioned trials, you get the great honor of meeting with the self-proclaimed Deca-Millionaire CEO of the company. This is the final boss of the interview process who will either approve your hiring or you will have wasted all your time, understandably not many people are willing to dedicate multiple days for the great honor of being paid a mere $17/hr. If you made it past the interview process, congratulations now you must face the 90 day probationary period in which it seems you can and will be fired for any reason. These reasons may vary from not completing certain portions of the “bootcamp” to the whimsical nature of the CEO, where you will not be told the reason, but the CEO seems to voice his opinion to others in the office(s). For this “bootcamp” period, whatever little guidance you receive will be a blessing compared to any guidance on future Digitize projects. In my short tenure I have seen many people forcibly separated at this stage, all of which had no indication of what was to come. If you make it through the “bootcamp” then another congratulations are in order, but don’t think surviving has ensured your continued employment. From now on you will be working on projects assigned and reassigned seemingly at the whims of the CEO. Most if not all of these projects have extremely poorly defined specifications that appear to change depending on the time of day and the mood of upper management. If you do manage to make a working prototype, you will most probably be reassigned to another failing project and your previous project will never see completion. Keep in mind that while you are jumping from new to failing projects you will be under the semi-watchful eyes of the CEO, who likes to veer from extremely hands off to micromanaging. And if you do not meet his expectations in any way he will not tell you but rather appears to voice his opinions to others in the office(s). Your continued employment at this company requires you to constantly read and judge the current state of mind of the CEO to ensure that you do not fall out of his good graces. Be careful who you turn to for help since many of the senior employees at the company will do whatever it takes to ensure their employment, including agreeing with whatever evaluation is presented to them by the CEO. When the eventual end to your employment comes, and it will come, you will have no warning and no time to prepare. You will be hauled into the conference room with people who have no real clue as to why you are being let go, and why should they when all decisions are made by the CEO. You will then be escorted to clean out your stuff and off the property. If you are looking to leave your job or need a job to support yourself, I do not recommend this one since you may at any point be fired with no prior indication or warning. They will not try to tell you what you can improve nor will any of his complaints be directly conveyed to you, but rest assured others in the offices will most likely know. The model that the CEO likes to work with seems to prefer newly graduated or self-learned developers and sifting them through a long interview process to then only be employed with no guarantee of length. All of this is happening while his main company is hemorrhaging talent.

Expect low pay, a bonus program that forgoes regular PTO policy to motivate you to never miss work to get a big bonus compensating you for the low wage, and long hours (with an odd company culture regarding overtime.. the logical conclusion to which is MOVING INTO A COMMUNAL HOUSE DOWN THE STREET FROM THE OFFICE..) There is rigorous pre-job testing, no job security, little to no asking questions regarding a task, and a high turnover rate. I have witnessed multiple people being let go due to the owner's belief that enough tough love will yield him a team of "alphas" (lol) The boss is a megalomaniac who revels in voicing his "radical opinions" on topics that are uncomfortable and inappropriate for a workplace, and his #2 is a narc who genuinely seems incapable of interacting with people in any way that doesn't reaffirm his power. They both think of themselves as "apart from the sheep" in a way that is frankly embarrassing to any mature, well-adjusted person. Working for small businesses in the face of big tech monopolies sounds like a moral endeavor. However, it is easy to forget that small companies can be the ego project of unprofessional, relatively obscure millionaires who have no idea how to treat others. Companies like this get excited at the prospect of gifted coders who are self-taught or have not completed school and do not have the degree, resume, or acumen to know the worth of their labor.

Pay is low and overtime is required. They start you off on 2 projects that are completely random and are for the sole purpose of testing you. My third project had 0 guidelines or specification and I got chewed out for not implementing random features that they came up with on the spot. Upper management is a nightmare. The CEO is an out of touch old man who I only had 2 conversations with the whole time I was there. The CEO’s top engineer is a horrible manager and communicator. He will lecture you for things that were never told to you but you “should’ve known”. He asked me to come up with a price for my project on the spot (I pulled a number out of thin air), and then started going around asking random employees if they would buy my project at the stated price. Since they all said no I was lectured about how I was disappointing clients (random employees he selected), and costing the company money (working on a project with zero specifications that I was told to do). The whole experience was a waste of time. There were many red flags but I accepted the job anyway because I was desperate for a job in a tough economy. Definitely something I'd recommend avoiding.