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Elementum reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(28 total reviews)
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Nader Mikhail

66% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

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4.2

Compensation and benefits

3.7

Culture & values

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

3.5

Work/Life balance

3.5

Career opportunities

3.3

Senior management

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1.0
Feb 15, 2018

Fake Transparency

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Free lunches -Pets at work -Unlimited PTO -Some really smart individual contributors and the few left who are still trying to uphold the old culture.

Cons

-Absolutely no transparency from leadership. -Had company wide layoffs despite claims of being okay financially. -Layoffs ranged from loyal employees who’ve been there since the beginning to new team members. -Lack of sales causing budget cuts throughout company. Cuts in benefits, perks and bonus payouts. -401K matching changed to VEST per year of employment. -Hiring is in a freeze despite having a second and third building “opening” up. Money going down the drain to keep the buildings leased with no new employees to fill. -Little to no opportunities for growth. -Company writes fake five star reviews to cover up any constructive criticism that pass through. -As much as they want to pretend it is, the company culture is no longer what it used to be and is now an environment where employees are afraid if they’ll be in the next batch of people laid off.

2.0
Dec 21, 2017

Don't believe the hype

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Some very talented individual contributors with amazing vision. -Large deals with large respectable clients with household names. -Good to high base salaries. Not the best, but far from underpaying employees. -Very good equity packages.

Cons

-The smart people are unfortunately surrounded by people that don't know what they are doing and riding the coat tails of the successful engineers. -Taking away good benefits and making them worse (looking at your 401k match) -Everyone is stretched incredibly thin and is juggling way too many balls in the air at once, doing the job of at least 2 or more people, while management is entirely oblivious to this fact and keeps committing to more and more unattainable deliverables. -Has no idea what standards, procedures, or protocols are and how to follow them. -Fake transparency. Will pass along information when it's good, and conceal information when it's not so great. -Regularly has teams working until 3-4AM because the systems are not stable or because leadership committed to a ridiculous deliverable for a new/on-edge client. Then holds meetings to say we will learn from this - that it's a true sign of our "relentless" attitude and how "committed" all of our individual contributors are. -Every time there is a round of working late nights/early mornings for unrealistic deliverables for a client, there is a round of employee firings after the emergency fizzles out. A true sign that management doesn't take ownership of the situation they are putting everyone in. -Typical valley CEO-syndrome. Knows what to say, when to say it, and how to deliver the message to be like-able by everyone. I'll admit it, I'm inspired and truly believe it after hearing him speak. However, fails in every aspect when it comes to actually enforcing the change necessary or implementing what is talked about. Nothing ever changes. -For a company 5 years into it's existence, I would have expected significantly more clientele. I would not have joined if I knew the current landscape. -Stop cutting corners everywhere. People that have no business questioning things need to stop questioning things. -You are constantly reminded to go like the CEO's social media posts. How does the company get an accurate grasp on your market reach when all of your social media clicks are internal?

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Elementum Response
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I’m sorry to hear that you have not had a good experience at Elementum. We’ve always believed the success of our mission depends on the success of our employees, and we invest a lot of thought and resources in their wellbeing. To that end, I would like to address a few things regarding your comments on our culture and benefits. In terms of our clients, there’s definitely a disparity in the size of our Global 1000 customers compared to the size of our company. While we’ve continued to learn from—and adapt to—the challenges of helping huge enterprises overcome decades of institutional inertia, we’ve been following a consistent strategy from day one: driving network effects by targeting industry leaders and bringing their ecosystems aboard. It’s the challenge that we all signed up for, and I couldn’t be more proud of everything we’ve already been able to accomplish. Our employees work hard — and the past few months have been exceptionally demanding. Workload often depends on customer cycles, which is true for any enterprise software company that needs to deliver to customers on a schedule. To support our product, engineering, and customer teams, we’ve more than doubled headcount to almost 400 this year, and putting in place more structure and process. As we’ve discussed in our weekly all-hands, we’ve been actively building repeatable playbooks, designing new hire bootcamps, and investing in feedback and development systems such as Reflektive and Workday. Regarding the 401k topic, we think our benefits and perks stack up well against even large public companies, and you’d be hard pressed to find many similar sized companies committing to a 401k match program like ours—we’ve even increased the match for employees who stay with the company long-term. Lastly, I think there’s a misunderstanding about transparency. Communication is a two-way street, and transparency only works when people take responsibility to ask questions. At Elementum, when you ask an honest question, you get an honest answer. And when you attend our weekly all-hands, you’ll always hear Nader and the rest of the leadership team urging people to ask them hard questions. In that spirit, I would be happy to talk further about any of your concerns, either privately or during the open mic so others can benefit from hearing the responses.
4.0
Dec 18, 2017

Awesome Company

Senior software engineer
Recommend
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Pros

I worked at Elementum for a while in 2017, but I had a good journey and learned a lot. - The company provided really good benefits & perks: medical, bonus, 401k matching, free lunch/dinner, etc. I miss the CEO's BBQ :-) - There are decent & intelligent engineers around. - Various open source frameworks in daily job. It was a once-in-a-lifetime exciting experience to be on board.

Cons

- Developers are put into OPS "jailed-box", which kills passion and innovation. please don't let developers beg for permission. - As a start-up, it has built some hierarchy, bottom engineers do not feel connected in a transparent way: why is the decision made? how can I help?

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