Love this place - Anonymous employee Black Mountain Systems Employee Review

- Great working environment - Wonderful and competitive compensations - Very flexible working hours - Smart coworkers that are willing to help others succeed. - Accessible working location (Midtown, Manhattan) - FUN. (Happy hours, company trips, office parties...) - Non-stressful, meaningful work - Very nice, fun and talkative CEOs and managers

- VERY selective interview process, may have missed out on some potentially great candidates. But this is also a pro, since everyone that works there are not only smart, but also fits the culture of the company - Must be willing to learn to succeed

1) Communication between management and staff is fantastic. I feel that I can maintain an open/honest discussion with my supervisor at all times about both the good experiences and the bad experiences. 2) The people here are all incredible. I haven't met one person yet at the company that I wouldn't want to continually work with. The hiring process here is specifically designed to ensure that the company culture and values are present in every new employee that is brought on board. This really shows itself once you have a chance to actually meet everybody at one of the company monthly happy hours. 3) Everybody here has a sense of purpose and knows why they are here. I know that I am a valued member of the company which gives me a great deal of satisfaction with working here. Every day, I feel a sense of accomplishment for the job I am doing and I look forward to coming into work everyday because of that.

1) You are expected to work an average of 50 hours per week. While the company does help you with crafting a more comfortable schedule around that 50 hours, it is still a large chunk of time to swallow. I have found myself struggling with this many times throughout my time here and I can easily understand why other people struggle as well. Also, you are taking a 20% hit to your salary based on time worked because you are being paid for a 40 hour work week, but expected to work 50 hours. For example, if you are paid $70K a year, that's $1400 a week, and $35 an hour (8 hrs a day, 5 days/week, 50 weeks/year). However, you are expected to work 50 hours a week (10 hours a day). If you worked hourly, your weekly pay would be $1750 for that 50 hours. Since the job is salary and you only get $1400 a week, you lose that 20% for the extra time spent at work. 2) There are also other trade-offs to the benefits here. They do offer 4 weeks paid vacation which is good, but there is no separation of sickness vs regular time off. If you come down with some debilitating disease that takes you out for a week, that is a week out of your vacation time as well. While the managers say to take time off when you are sick so as not to infect anyone else, the incentive is to not do that so you can get more time off for fun things. The company also does not contribute to your 401k plan at all.