All Flash, No Substance - Software Engineer Vendasta Employee Review

- The company's business model is inherently flaky, after this many "pivots" the appropriate term is "flailing". - They constantly pat themselves on the back for their "culture" but unfortunately it is pure bro culture. If you don't like drinking, or foosball be prepared to feel like an outsider. - What (very little) professional development opportunities exist are entirely self-serve. If you aren't willing to chase/guide your own development and put up a fight to obtain anything meaningful, you are unlikely to achieve much professional growth. - Compensation was very high for Saskatoon 5 or 6 years ago, but has not kept pace. Salaries are very much average to below-average for Engineers now. - "Flex time" and "Flex place" are hailed as examples of what a progressive workplace this is, however, both are so severely restricted as to make them all but useless beyond superficial use. - Hiring has been more about quantity than quality for the past few years resulting in significant degradation to the general developer skill level. - Extremely aggressive hiring policy not paired with any formal onboarding procedures, resulting in massive extra workload on existing employees to get new, often under-qualified, team members up to speed. - Unpaid and completely uncompensated overtime is very common. Management actively encourages employees who pull extra hours but do absolutely nothing to satisfy their legally mandated obligation to compensate them. - Management consistently overpromises and underdelivers on any topic of concern to employees. - Company claims to have a completely flat hierarchy but what really exists is a "shadow hierarchy" where raises and other perks (including stock options) are doled out only to those who are favourites of various elements of management. - Development teams are pressured to adopt complicated development methodologies instead of allowing them to use what works for their particular circumstances. - Flailing business model in conjunction with extremely aggressive hiring policy gives the clear impression of a company that is attempting to appear more successful than is actually true, likely with management pursuing an exit via acquisition. This puts management goals expressly at odds with those of employees looking to build a career at a stable, growing company.