Two Thumbs Down - Programmer - PHP and Perl HRsmart Employee Review

1.0
Apr 22, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Richardson location is easy to get to from most parts of the DFW Metroplex. At one time they were flexible with telecommuting and flex-time but got more hard-line about "face time" as the economy soured over the past couple of years. People were generally easy to work with.

Cons

1) Software - horrible. Worst I've seen before or since. HRsmart tends to hire young, inexperienced programmers and turn them loose with no internal training or supervision, resulting in a codebase that a college freshman would look down on. A lot is made of the rigorous testing but it is mostly superficial, allowing broken and incomplete applications to be released to the customer. 2) Business Processes - broken. "account managers" deal with the clients exclusively, so developers seldom hear what the customer actually wants. Often code is written multiple times because requirements are incorrectly defined or more often, not understood by the account manager due to lack of training and product knowledge. 3) Organization - dysfunctional. Programmers are split into two groups - one develops new applications, and one services the customers. Because of this structure, new application development rarely takes into account the needs of the current customer base. This results in a perennially unhappy customer base that has new features thrust upon them that they neither need nor want, while the issues that they complain about, and really want, go ignored. Summary: Obviously far more bad than good. They appear to have a core group of long term employees (roughly 20%) that are constant, while the remaining 80% turns over every 12-18 months - the classic "bad place to work".

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5.0
Apr 20, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work scenarios - working from home. Deltek integration project has been near flawless - our family in VA listens and responds to our legitamate work needs to ensure we are in sync and providing an exceptional "product experience" for our clients.

Cons

Leftover "HRsmart-istic" tendencies. Departments show fractures and some signs of segregation / attitudes of eliteness. An lingering viewpoint (not Deltek)..that some EEs time is less valuable than others, thus their opinions do not receive the same level of attention or priority.

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1.0
Jun 25, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It was a great company a few years ago. You got career opportunities, the people was always kind and the general mood was good. The software side was always kinda crappy, but other factors helped to ease that. Individual developers cared about that and tried to solve the problem. Sales... was just sales. You were able to learn (by yourself, but you could). Sadly, the money flow seemed to stop due to awful management decisions and the company is facing massive layoffs, salary reductions and late payments. You won't be able to do anything else than maintaining a dead code base (or trying to sell it)

Cons

1- Historically awful management. Unskilled, paper-pushers and power-hungry individuals get promoted exclusively. They take important decisions without the slightest knowledge of the matter. Skilled people is starting to be demoted or just laid off because they're problematic, or just too expensive. 2- Bad management decisions stopped the money flow after a relatively long time, powered by the recession. Their main product is broken, totally outdated and is being quickly replaced by competitors. 3- No more good mood anywhere. Everyone is paranoid about being laid off, or being overseen by his/her direct manager. You can't have an honest discussion about the simplest workday problem with anyone. 4- Laying off people doesn't get work out of your plate. You'll be required to do overtime every single week.

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