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Lots of turnover, boring product, but decent work-life balance - Anonymous employee Marin Software Employee Review

3.0
Sep 16, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work-life balance. For a medium-sized company in the Bay Area, I would say their work-life balance is fairly decent. Usually I don't have an issue working just the expected 8 hours per day. Unlimited sick leave + 15 days of PTO Decent salary, decent kitchen/stocked fridge Depending on your luck, you could have an awesome manager, tech lead and interesting projects. QA get all the window seats Not much in the ways of crazy politics, backstabbing colleagues, etc. In fact, I found quite a few friends here.

Cons

Almost no one works remotely and this is only done if you're sick. This is somewhat of an issue - although there is unlimited sick leave, there's often the expectation that we work from home while we are sick. No 401k matching. High turnover. A lot of the senior employees are leaving, leaving fewer people to mentor the new hires. This is made worse by the fact that Marin likes to hire new college grads who often need training, but lack the right mentors (since so many are leaving). Not particularly Agile at all. There is often bureaucracy that stops Agile in its tracks, despite this not being a big company. The micromanaging tendencies of a few have quite possibly led to more than one employee choosing to leave. Certain teams are understaffed and overworked and Marin does not seem to be trying very hard to recruit in those areas. This should certainly take priority over hiring more new grads.

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Marin Software Response
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To address your concerns: We do allow people to work remotely if it is prearranged with their manager. It is the preference to work on-site as in-person collaboration is often more effective. As for management training, we are currently rolling this out for everyone who has a direct report. Recruiting senior software engineers is definitely a focus for us and happy to report that we have just hired 4 senior software engineers. The Bay Area/Silicon Valley is incredibly competitive, and all of our engineers are amazingly talented individuals. But rather than having just another “warm body” join our team, we do want to focus on fit. Turnover is rampant in technology companies everywhere and we are unfortunately not immune to it.

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