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Overworked and underpaid - Software Developer Advicent Solutions Employee Review

1.0
Jul 11, 2020
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Pros

You will work with really smart people and learn a lot. Your colleagues will become your best friends. It is in its stages to set up actual release pipelines and join the rest of the world of using a cloud solution to deploy and host software. So if you ever wanted to get on the ground level of the migration to a cloud, you are probably a little late but there is still a lot of work to do.

Cons

You will work really hard building a project where you have minimal input of what it needs to do and with little guidance on what needs to be built. Just that you need to build it and you need to build it fast. Management spent years undermining what their competitors are doing but now that they are in the reactionary state. The career track is pretty much non-existent. Even though its a mid-size company, I'm pretty sure the CTO maybe knows your name but he definitely doesn't know what you do. And that is nothing due to your part, your colleagues will rave about how awesome you are doing while he won't even be on the same floor as any of IT or devs. You can work as hard as you want and can try to ask your manager what it takes to get to the next level but they will only ask for more without specific details even if you already doing much more than what you are paid to do. This was even before the promotion freeze. With the promotion freeze and layoffs, its pretty hard to see that you truly will climb up at the company, which might be okay, but you will be making less than the area average within software development industry. Tech side you will be working with mostly the latest and greatest, but everything is backed by a legacy code that is starting to show its age. Short deadlines will force you work late and make a lot of TODOs.

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5.0
Sep 12, 2022
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Pros

Advicent was great - all went downhill after they were acquired by Investcloud. Majority of the team left within a few months of the acquisition (taking the great company culture along with them). Had nothing but great things to say about Advicent... Investcloud is a different story entirely.

Cons

Lack of transparency, mainly surrounding the Covid-era layoffs. To be honest, this is fairly on-par with other Covid layoffs but was one of the only cons I could think of.

5.0
Dec 24, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great people to work with. They're mostly very intelligent, fun, and willing to help you if have any issues. It may be just me but I have not seen any kind of politics being played that would reduce focus on the job. - Culture is fun and inviting. There are a lot of events and collaboration/sharing across teams and departments. - From all of my experiences, managers do everything in their power to provide employees with the necessary resources and means to do the best in their position. This is all you can really ask, you have to do the rest and work hard. - Work-life balance is extremely helpful. Per the norm, 40 hours are expected but you have flexibility in essentially choosing your hours other than core ones and being available for meetings.

Cons

- Pay is across the board lower than average. That being said, if you're an above average employee then that will not be the case. Pay is likely lower than average due to the young workforce which is primarily 1-4 years out of college. - Training: in most positions, there is not a fully developed or organized training program. This is actually a plus and minus. On one hand it teaches you to deal with ambiguous situations. But it does make some people feel uncomfortable. It does however allow the organization to find people that can thrive with minimal direction.

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