Expert Mouse Mover - Anonymous employee TechnologyAdvice Employee Review

1.0
Apr 14, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A job to help you in desperate times

Cons

Everything. You don't have to be good at your job, just an expert mouse move or keyboard smacker. Thanks ActivTrak. ActivTrak is a tool that tracks how often you spend time in a "productive tool" by monitoring mouse and keyboard movement when using Slack, Google docs, or whatever is considered productive for that month. If you are idle for more than 4 minutes, it stop tracking time; so good luck making coffee or having any sense of work life balance. The tool actively incentivizes reduced efficiency. What do I mean? If you are good at your job, and can do it efficiently in less time with high quality; guess what happens? you are tracking less time and hence considered unproductive. The way things are at this company, the faster/better/smarter you are at your job you are considered less productive than your mouse moving counterpart. The input to your work is held at a higher standard than the outcome of the work or the business you bring to the company. So as long as you are "agree" to everything and can show 40 hours on the board you are going to be successful. Spend time making sure people think you are smart over doing work, because that'll get you the in the good books, and get promotions faster. Don't worry about promotions, you'll get one soon. At the rate people are fired, or leave this company every quarter you will be expected to do your job and take on additional roles. No extra money tho, that's not a part of the promotion deal here. I know you are already underpaid compared to basic salaries for your role but that's life at TA. They will make a big deal of their values and not follow it. They will set new goals almost ever quarter. Typically they spend the end of a quarter planning for the next one and then wonder why they don't have enough time to work on their priorities. There is clearly an inner circle and if you upset anyone in that group. Game over. You are fired. Everyone at this company is suffering in silence. The culture is a joke, Those wards they get are forced on to employees to fill the survey. Their eNPS is a joke. The only think that makes them money is a legacy LeadGen Product that is slowly dying. All their new priorities don't get enough resources to prove value and leads to constant pivots!

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

- The people are a delight to work with! - Fully remote-first company with owners and executives who have repeatedly committed to staying fully remote. There are a few regional offices that some execs and nearby employees work out of optionally, but the vast majority of the company works remotely. - The company culture has years of remote-first experience and does a great job keeping teams connected despite the distance. - Management offers a lot of flexibility in work schedules as long as they average around 40 hours a week. - There is a strong focus on helping employees learn and grow, with great support for career development within the company. - The company leans heavily on promoting internally, including into management roles. - Lateral moves are also supported at times, with some employees having started in one department and transitioned into a completely different role. - Unlimited PTO (typically around 3-4 weeks per year in practice). - HR and executives actively listen to and act on employee feedback. - The culture is team-win oriented and supportive, so there is noticeably less internal competition than you might find elsewhere. Pro and con: The company culture centers on continuous improvement, which means employees are generally expected to bring ownership and initiative to their work. If you prefer a more heads-down, clock-in-clock-out style of work, this may not be the right fit.

Cons

From my perspective, exec and middle management planning still has room for improvement. Last year, leadership struggled to plan more than a month ahead, with priorities shifting significantly from month to month. This year has shown improvement, with planning horizons extending to a quarter or half year and fewer drastic shifts, though notable shifts still occur at times.

1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Many of the employees were very nice.

Cons

The worst company culture I have ever seen. They micromanage everything including your time on the laptop with a spy software that they tell you is for productivity reasons when it really is to justify the jobs of the "genius" management teams. If you go walk your dog for 15 minutes you get pinged as not being productive. The management is ridiculous and they change on the fly. They preach corporate culture but it feels like the Gestapo is watching you at all times. In sales the bottom line is the bottom line, they are so busy worrying about the wrong metrics that they suffocate you. I was nervous taking a lunch break. It's insane. They want you to be logged in and active on your computer at least 7.5 hours per day which is crazy. In sales you have to make calls, do reports and proposals and sometimes you need to strategize. If you work in an office environment you are getting up to go tp the bathroom, talking to coworkers, maybe going outside for a smoke and I guarantee most people are not on their computer for 7.5 hours a day. I've never seen anything like this before in terms of the "big brother" monitoring. Stay as far away from them as possible if you want a decent quality of life.

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