A lot of perks - but look beyond the bells & whistles, no foundation! - Anonymous employee Elementum Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Base salary and perks like free lunch, gym membership, cell phone allowance.

Cons

Sinking ship - stay away. Be wise and look beyond the perks - examine the foundations & fundamentals of this company. I thought long and hard about writing such a 'negative' review on glassdoor but I felt it right to give a warning to any potential job seekers. The product has a ton of issues and management is not trying to find a product-market fit at all. Product direction and re-org changes every couple months without any input from customers. They just build things and hope someone buys it, makes no sense. Also - its a supply chain software company with no supply chain people at the top. The product is all smoke & mirrors with a fantastic sales & marketing team. There is zero substance under the covers and implementations always hit the point where a customer asks 'what on earth did we buy' after a couple months. Customers love the people but not the product. Not a good business model. Culture wise, its a lot of hand wavers and talkers in middle & upper management. No talk about how we can save customers money or solve a problem - just boilerplate verbiage on how we're disruptors or change agents or how you need to work harder. Employees are just numbers where they are hired and fired at the speed of light. Last round of layoffs, because this happens with a degree of regularity, they let go of people who were at the company not even 3 months. Seriously - they hired a big group of people and then let them go in under a year. If you are on a visa KEEP LOOKING - do what's best for your family! Comp wise the base pay is ok but since the 401k vests over 4 years, and they will most likely lay you off in 1-2, you end up not really getting a 401k employer match. Look beyond the perks, be wise. They also like to pay below your bonus target. Ethics wise, I have serious concerns. Several things represented to me during the recruitment process and offer negotiations turned out to not be true regarding my compensation package and health of the company. Plus, if you say something negative to your manager or complain, it shows up on your performance report and reduces your bonus or inhibits promotion. What kind of system is that? I never got the hard proof that bad practice is afoot - but there are a lot of smoking guns.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Lets be clear, Elementum is NOT a start up Per Nader's own words, Elementum has been around for awhile but never amounted to much. Almost the entire work force was laid off after years of supporting a garbage product. Then they attempted to re-invent themselves as a "supply chain" product. Within the yearish I was there it went from supply chain to a Service Now knock off and finally to piggy backing off of Snowflake to make themselves look like they are a legit data analytics company. And now "AI Driven Workflow"? These are just catchy words and phrases. It means nothing. Their product is garbage. Countless times you hear about big issues from big name customers and the "fix" was band aid on an gun shot wound. We were all told to log into the app store and give the app a 5 star rating, but it was just plain bad. The app is a glorified ticketing system. Add to it the relentless turn over. It seemed like once a week someone was fired and there was NEVER any plan in place to replace them. Within 1 month the main guy for software development was canned and then the director of engineering was gone, out of the blue, no warning. I ran all of the IT and was kept in the dark about most everything, including off boards. I was finally term'd after I turned down wanting to take on more work and roles without any additional pay in the engineering department. I am not an engineer and I did not want to be one, so I was let go. Fun story, Nader had the habit of just randomly showing up with new computers and I would literally be the last to know. There was a situation with a computer that we could not account for. This led to me having my final payouts being delayed for just about a month with absolutely no word from anyone from the company. I had to hound the HR rep almost weekly.

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