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ClearSlide

Acquired by Corel

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Promising Product undermined by poor management and politics - Engineer ClearSlide Employee Review

2.0
Jan 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome central location in Downtown SF. Great camaraderie amongst peers and colleagues. Good office break room perks. Promising space and the product delivers a lot of great sales insight and has a lot of use case potential. Market competitive salary.

Cons

The upper management has continued to undermine productivity and morale in a multitude of ways, with poor optics and no sense of perception. The first and most obvious being painting over our old company mottos during business hours. Another prime example being the "10 hours/sense of urgency" email sent a few months prior that many in their GlassDoor reviews have spoken of. Everyone working at a startup already understands that there should be sense of urgency, but by putting a hard number in a department-wide email, you pushed many who value work/life balance out the door, and demoralized those already putting in way more than 10 hours a day. This policy came direct from the CEO and when confronted by media denied it altogether and threw the VP of Engineering under the bus. Another example of terrible optics is a C-level staff shakeup that occurred few months back and "pressing the reset button" layoff was followed 48 hours later with a round of champagne and open-mic toasts to "here's to a fresh start." The company just forced out both co-founders and 15% of the company...what are we toasting exactly? How is this even remotely appropriate given the circumstances of some of my fellow colleagues who just lost their jobs? Anecdotal conversations with many current and former employees after my departure also uncovered that little to no raises were given to many team members despite years of tenure, and advancement opportunities were scarce. Empire building is rampant and politics rules the day.

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Pros

Flexible schedules and family orientated

Cons

No bonuses or much career growth

5.0
Apr 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Just to preface this, I have been working for ClearSlide for about 1 month and honestly I feel that all the negative reviews being posted here are from a different time period and don't reflect the ClearSlide of today. My observations thus far: 1. I have never been asked to work 10 hours a day. 2. Being proactive with your own career is how you promote career growth here. 3. Leadership is pushing for the company to be profitable. Can't say that for most investment reliant tech startups can you? So on with the PROs: -Very nice and helpful people- I've never had problems getting information. I have multiple avenues of contact with every team within the company. Despite being on a bit of an island in from the SF office in NYC, I still feel connected and can get resources whenever I need them (after 11:30am EST of course). -You are heard- When I find issues in the platform and report them, I always get feedback. I have found a few bugs or non-intuitive functionality within the platform within the month I have been here and the dev team is already actively working to fix all of them. -Excellent work life balance- Like I said before, I was never asked to work 10 hours a day. -Unlimited PTO -Free food- and lots of it! I have many more pros I could list but I'll just keep it short.

Cons

Cons- -No matching 401k yet -NYC office is much quieter. SF office is more lively and fun at the cost of productivity(compared to NYC at least). Not entirely a con I guess. Can't think of any more cons. Will update if any.

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