Dynamics designs some of the most fun but difficult products in the world - Chief Scientist Dynamics Employee Review

5.0
Jul 14, 2019
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Pros

I have been a part of Dynamics from almost the beginning of the company, being with the company for over 10 years. Before that I had my own company for five years, then was engineering manager for another local company for 20 years. I am now 70 and continue to work full time for Dynamics instead of retiring, to help move the new products forward. Dynamics is a company for the person who loves to implement new ideas and technology into a product that initially seems impossible, but then becomes a reality. Jeff, our CEO, is a creator and has a great imagination of what can be done in the payments industry in particular. If you love new technology, and integrating it into a product, this is the place for you. I have been stretched and had to push the limits of what I thought could be done many times during the past 10 years. Although Jeff is very demanding at times, he has been able to take this company from nothing to a company with several successful product lines now, and much more coming in the future. That takes a lot of energy and skill to accomplish. He literally works day and night moving the company forward. He is the most creative and hard working CEO that I have ever worked for. He has grown in his management abilities significantly over the past 10 years, seeking advise and counsel from many successful business leaders, and implementing what he has learned. The pace is fast and the designs include new technology that has not been done before, This creates the need for the Teams to be flexible and make changes quickly as needed. This often creates friction, due to the customer time lines and required product changes that require extra effort to accomplish. But in the end, when the product is finished, and the customer needs are met, it is rewarding. The conflict between design time lines and customer needs has always existed in all my past engineering positions, it is not something new with Dynamics. Jeff has many new ideas in the works for the future, and I look forward to seeing those brought to completion. Would love to have you join in the journey. Jim Workley-Chief Scientist

Cons

You must be a self-starter, understand the pressures and challenges with a start up company, and be willing to put in some extra effort to be successful at Dynamics. Many of our past employees did understood these things.

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5.0
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Pros

Since day one I have been treated as if I have been part of the team for 10 years. They really understand a work/life balance. The team is great and very helpful. CEO is very knowledgable and shares his knowledge and helps others learn. The enviroment is very team oriented and they take the time to catch everyone up to speed, even with previous projects. Good benefits. Cutting edge industry changing projects.

Cons

Computers could use some updating.

1.0
Oct 3, 2025
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Pros

The people you suffer with are the only highlight

Cons

- The stale/stagnant upper "management" (They're not really management because the CEO micromanages absolutely everything). - The CEO tells everyone they are useless so that they won't feel like they deserve a raise. - The CEO wants to only hire desperate people because, they have no where else to go. - The CEO micromanages everything and prevents engineers from engineering solutions (the whole point of their job) - The CEO has extremely bad "good idea fairy syndrome" where he enacts last second changes to processes, software, equipment, etc. without any input. Those decisions lead to extra support needed on weekends, significantly slowed processes, and pointing fingers at everyone else for being the problem. - The CEO will never admit he makes mistakes, calls you a liar when you call him out and show him evidence, and challenges people to blame him for the issues occuring - I could go on and on, but you have to understand at this point that you shouldn't be working here. Do not believe the fake 'good' reviews on here. The CEO says that Glassdoor is for collecting negative reviews so that Glassdoor can hold the company for ransom to remove all the bad reviews for a large sum of money.

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