Fast paced, great place to work - Senior Full Stack Developer ShipStation Employee Review

4.0
Aug 26, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cutting/occasionally bleeding edge technology stack, novel ideas enouraged, they give you plenty of rope, management does what they say they are going to do and keep their committments. Not sure about all the negativity in some of these reviews. In my experience the CEO and other mgrs are deeply interested in employee satistaction despite being blunt and too the point. Everytime I was told something, my mgr and the CEO made it happen in less time than promised and everyone was trying very hard to satisfy all employees...no easy task. At the end of the day it's a fast paced vertical but probably the best job I've had. I had to make a change to satisfy some family obligations. Challenging, fun, with spot on leadership.

Cons

Occasionally leave employees too much to their own devices and criticize after the fact. Mgt occasionally interjects itself into the dev process leading to duplication of effort and confusion for employees. Organizational size and structure leaves little room for advancement, however to be fair, when a new position opens up, internal folks get first shot which is nice. I would expect this last point will chance with continued growth and evolution.

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5.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Every single person that works here is super nice and welcoming.

Cons

Can't think of any cons

2.0
Apr 16, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The work from home option is great, they do provide free snacks and drinks and a catered lunch once a week. Sometimes the workload can be really light. Most of the people working there were great

Cons

Owned by private equity, so the annual mass layoffs are very real, They will mass fire people and then outsource the jobs over seas. Expectation of taking ownership of projects without equitable pay for the responsibilities taken on. Sometimes the workload can be unbearable. I worked there when it was still a startup company, So I witnessed the company culture dive off of a cliff after the PE acquisition. Upper management is very fake and everything is about pushing more and more sales. The quality of the product has deteriorated, while more features have been added, there are more bugs and less people to fix them, all while the company continues to raise their prices. Managers tend to be promoted or moved from different sister companies, because they are "good managers" but then they know nothing about the platform they are managing, so they end up not being able to assist the employees they are managing

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