Good People, Poor Company Unification - Anonymous employee Digital Turbine Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Depending on the office location, the company continues to hire some very talented engineering staff. They're very flexible with schedules and will work with you on establishing something that works for you. The engineering issues facing the company are interesting problems to solve.

Cons

The communication is terrible here. Half the time you're not sure what you need to be working on, and if you are working on something, it's hard to tell whether or not you did a good job because there are no shared standards the company makes an effort to follow. If you can do it fast, the rest is superfluous from an overall management standard. Each of the offices seems to have their own wildly divergent culture, making cross-team efforts near useless, or extremely hindered by no widely accepted standards, communication mechanisms, or even work priorities. Management is chaotic and meandering most times, and due to such poor company-wide communication, creates an atmosphere that allows for otherwise straightforward production practices (such as issue escalation) to become completely mired in miscommunication and inter-office politics. This creates an environment where it is hard to grow outside of personal efforts. There's little to no mentorship due to time pressures caused mostly by mis-communication. The overall feeling of working here in engineering is an overwhelming amount of stress with little to nothing to show for it most of the time.

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Digital Turbine Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide us feedback on your experience working at Digital Turbine. We value and appreciate you taking the time to lend us some constructive suggestions on how we can improve our company. As with any small to mid-size global company we have growing pains. One of which is finding better ways to communicate efficiently and effectively across the globe. Another area of improvement that we are continuously working on is finding ways to align our teams throughout the company. This can be a difficult task when dealing with offices that operate differently, different time zones, culture, communication styles, and views on the best way to produce high quality software. We are also in a business which moves very quickly to ensure we keep up with our customer demands and rapid market growth. All of these things together can sometimes be challenging. We have put more focus on structuring the teams in a way to more effectively support the business. We have also brought on new leadership in technology to help us to better align technology with the business. Integrating and changing the way we do business is a slow process, but we understand that this is a necessary step in order to be successful. We are not yet perfect, but are committed to the journey. Again thank you for providing your insight and perspective. We sincerely hope that you have already seen some of the changes we have made to improve in these areas. Please feel free to provide additional insight to your manager, tech leadership, executive team or HR. We are always willing to listen to new ideas and implement ways to better the business and your experience with Digital Turbine.

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