An opportunity for personal growth - Anonymous employee Monsoon Employee Review

4.0
Mar 9, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You are allowed, in-fact encouraged, to expand your role. The company needs new ideas and lets its employees try out new things. Management supports employees taking on projects, even outside their area of expertise, in order to try something new that will help the company grow. Risk taking (within boundaries of course) is rewarded, and no one is penalized for something going wrong (again within reason). Thus you can learn a new field while doing your normal day-to-day job. Everyone is constantly encouraged to grow. There is camaraderie amongst the employees and as you can see from past reviews, everyone likes the culture.

Cons

The company’s products are geared for a declining market segment, and the industry’s revenue model is changing, resulting in the company being less competitive. Updating the product is not financially feasible, so while the company makes a nice profit, that will eventually come to an end. The company has downsized over the past 6 months to reflect this reality and keep the business running as long as possible. However, employees from the “glory days” set a negative tone, blaming executives for events outside their control. This contributes to an unhelpful finger-pointing attitude.

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Good benefits and nice people

Cons

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2.0
Mar 30, 2016
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Pros

The people are great. They are smart and friendly and generally willing to help out when they can. The benefits are above average. Work schedule is flexible with regard to working from home when needed. You can have dogs in the office.

Cons

Management has not demonstrated the ability to maintain focus on a single plan for the future. Much of the downward spiral that was the last two years I would attribute to the constant thrashing of priorities as everyone was changing focus to work on the "new" big thing. The end result was that nothing got accomplished and all of the products were left woefully behind the competition. Communication is not as transparent as it could be. In a company this small, it is critical to keep everyone in the loop of what is happening. This was not always the case. Often things were simply not shared. Other times only half truths were shared or data was misrepresented. No one is asking to be at the table with the executives. All the employees are looking for is open communication about the direction of the company and the plans for the future.

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