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Start here and move on as soon as you can - Junior Associate Mountain State Software Solutions Employee Review

2.0
Jan 31, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Engineers are very smart and fun Lots of things to learn from your peers CEO used to be in the office often and be closer to his employees Great place for fresh out of college person to start their career Annual company retreat to tropical country like Mexico or Punta Cana

Cons

Let's start: CFO is also HR, which is conflict of interests, also he's extremely stingy. Got promoted to a team lead position? Well, you will get a percentage of company shares, which means nothing until company is sold, forget about pay raise. COVID spread prevention measures are at its low, the company was WFH more days because of mold in the basement, than pandemic. Zero trust to employees, management thinks people don't work while they are at home, it is very hard to get partial WFH, not talking about full Company culture died in summer of 2021, not sure what happened, but all of the monthly employee appreciation events disappeared from calendars. CEO doesn't participate in company's life anymore. College graduates are forced to sign a contract where they would own $$ to a company if they quit earlier than certain time, which leads to people quitting at around 1-1.5 years of working here. Employee retention rate is very low, high employee turnover. The only solid training that was in place was Jr Developer training, all other hires - figure it out yourself Company retreat is the only thing that tries to cover up all of the non-sense that people are dealing with.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Feb 12, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good People CEO has significant technical knowledge

Cons

Training Fee Contract ~1yr ~4k As a junior dev they require you to get a mule cert through a Mulesoft training course. If you decide to leave within a year, you must pay that back with your below average salary. ~3k Awful location (terrible for employees, but great for ms3 since they can justify paying less for your hard work) Training all together is mediocre. You could learn all of this stuff in an internship at a legitimate company. COO is stingy (His penny pinching mentality leads to poor morale) Lack of control on which client you will be placed with. You could be placed with a client in the middle of nowhere or in a major city. Office is dreary and lack luster Compensation and Benefits is below average You can get locked into only using Mulesoft which can be uninteresting and frustrating especially if you are looking for a more traditional coding position.

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Mountain State Software Solutions Response
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Just to be clear MS3 doesn't charge anyone for training. You do sign an offer letter and as part of the offer you agree to remain with the company for 1 year if you go through our training program. This is clearly documented in the offer letter and the handbook so there isn't anything secret about it. Every company in the USA has this same policy this isn't something new. I had to pay back $20k for my masters degree because I didn't stay with the company long enough. If you break the agreement you have to be ready to pay the consequences. As for Mulesoft training, thats free and has been since 2019. So no we don't require anyone to pay back $3k for any free training. MS3 is a profit driven company for a reason. It's for our employees because as an employee they receive not just a stake in the company in terms of loyalty shares but we also pay out PROFIT Sharing. Every dollar that is saved gets paid back out to the employees. Thats why we have such huge payouts every year. Don't forget we also take the entire company to the Caribbean every year for a company all paid vacation. So profit sharing and Caribbean trips is why we work so hard on profitability not bottom lines or pinching pennies. I personally think that Matt and Jeremiah did a fantastic job of training you and it shows. You were able to use the skills they taught you to find another job. So you should thank them for all they were able to provide for your continued success.
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