Good company, great opportunity for growth - Mobile Architect Verivo Employee Review

4.0
Mar 28, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great, smart people to work with, employees like to have a good time. There is a very open culture, you can walk around the office and easily to talk with anyone on the team, up to and including the CEO. There are many many opportunities to grow; I have been with the company for almost six years, been promoted four times, and gained experience along the way that I would not have gotten at a larger company. Employees also have the chance to move across groups based on their strengths, so it is easy to grow into a new career path if that's what you want. You also have the chance to work on cutting edge technology at Verivo which, let's face it, is just plain cool.

Cons

In a cutting edge business it is always necessary to stay ahead of the market, and that leads to significant change some times. You need to be open to change and be forward thinking to thrive here.

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5.0
Sep 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

good upraises healthy environment nice team work

Cons

too stringent on pay none

3.0
Jul 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some very smart and talented people; gives its employees tremendous opportunities to learn and grow in an in-demand industry; does a good job of recognizing talent and promoting from within; benefits are pretty good; a beautiful office; the small-to-mid-sized software company culture. If you're looking to break into mobile and want the small start-up software company feel (and are willing to accept the significant risks that go with it), the company could be a good choice.

Cons

Company faced significant turnover and was forced to have layoffs after it's last major software product steadily became irrelevant (the new office is now half-empty as a result). In fairness to management, they recognized the problem before the company became totally unviable, and the company is now in the process of reinventing itself with its next-gen product, named 'Akula'. Will the product be successful? The jury is out, and if the answer is no, all employees will soon be out of a job. As a result, I can currently only recommend it to people who don't mind driving fast and taking chances. The CEO is smart and talented, but seems to have only passing control of overall product direction, which suffers at the hands of a disjointed product management process that seems to struggle with mapping software development tasks to actual customer needs. Starting compensation is competitive, but doesn't seem to keep pace with the industry as careers progress. This seems to be an issue at a lot of companies, though.

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