Talented engineers and devs, poor management - Junior Software Developer Zayo Employee Review

1.0
Mar 16, 2018
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Pros

Talented individuals that are there solely because they are either fresh out of school or just recently moved to Colorado and haven't been around long enough to hear of zayo

Cons

Poor employee moral would be an understatement, although I have left slightly over a year ago my some of my colleagues that stayed report things have only gotten worse. As a STEM major working at Zayo was a nightmare as you would a MBA running an engineering or IT department with zero clue about the technical details of the everyday operations. Pay was extremely poor about 30% below market and whenever this was brought up they would lie to your about RSUs making up the difference. Besides receiving at 10k rsu package when the company went public I didn't see a raise the entire 3 and a half years I was at zayo. The engineering department is still stuck in the 90s running on outdated software and equipment whilst the dev team struggles to manage a plethora of spaghetti code that makes up the entirety of their salesforce platform.

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

Excellent sales enablement, tools, and internal support. Leadership has done a good job creating an environment where Enterprise Account Executives can focus on selling instead of getting bogged down by administrative tasks. CRM data is clean, processes are organized, and responsibilities between Sales, Customer Success, and Account Management are clearly defined. It’s refreshing to work for a company that invests in the systems and structure needed to help its sales teams succeed.

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