What a roller coaster ride! - Anonymous employee Nerdery Employee Review

5.0
Sep 5, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Rapidly growing company (also a con) generates lots of advancement opportunities - Highly intelligent and passionate workforce - Mostly interesting work and tons of opportunities to learn new things - Fast paced and challenging projects - Great perks (dedicated "Nerd Support" teams, catered lunchs, company happy hours, great events) - People are genuine and the culture creates an environment that encourages helping others and empowering people to transcend their roles - Management encourages work/life balance, even though its not always possible in the face of looming deadlines and tight budgets.

Cons

- Growth has resulted in several space management issues (dense layouts, constantly moving people around, separating groups, etc) - Efficiency based business model causes many problems with resourcing and time management - Company is still adapting to to managing a larger workforce. Mistakes are being made but I'm confident good intentions are there. - Overall strategic direction of company is not clear. Company lost its greatest visionary in Luke Bucklin and Mike Derheim is not the same type of leader. - If you are part of the production department, you are expected to bill 40 hours per week, which means you are probably working 45-50.

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5.0
Jan 23, 2025
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Pros

One of my favorite things about working at Nerdery was how my job was different every day, kept me in my toes and kept my skills fresh and current.

Cons

Some of the departments lacked clear direction.

1.0
Jan 15, 2026
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Pros

- Actual client work is fun and we don't typically work with clients who are really aggressive with consultants. - Still have the opportunity to be remote

Cons

- Leadership is poor and consistently reactive. - There has been no real plan to improve the sales pipeline for nearly 3 years, but don't worry the man responsible for that failure was recently hired as a CEO elsewhere. - Layoffs happen, but there are examples where Nerdery leadership laid off employees who asked difficult questions or challenged leadership's ideas (e.g., retaliation). - We no longer have domain experts. Instead leadership is an account executive with an inflated title who might be pleasant, but doesn't actually have the expertise to improve the work. - Benefits were good when I started and now they are abysmal.

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