Super cool coworkers, but management needs some serious help - Anonymous employee Nerdery Employee Review

3.0
Jul 24, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

+Nerdy, cool coworkers (for the most part) +A reputation for getting things done (so very true) +Friday end of day event with food and beer every week (the food wasn't terribly great anymore by the time I left) +Friendly dogs for the petting

Cons

-Management: inexperienced -Management: people who have been there the longest may not actually be the best for leading entire departments -Management: secretive, yet allegedly transparent -Bad relationship between certain departments -Bad attitudes and put downs among staff are not unheard of -Nobody really tells you what to do until you do it wrong (and wrong can change from day-to-day) -Inability to think long term I got the feeling that the sudden death of The Nerdery's founder left the ship without a captain. The replacement captain means well, but (imho) is not capable of leading the ship over the next big wave.

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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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