Lot's of new and lots more of old - Software Engineer Zenoss, Inc. Employee Review

3.0
Dec 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Zenoss is developing parts of it's product line with some of the newest tech around: hadoop, docker, etc. If you want to work on cutting edge stuff, this may be the place for you.

Cons

There is more old tech that new tech. The core of the system is based on Zope. The technology is arcane, it's documentation is terrible and it's industry usage is next to 0 (at least in the USA). Management is focused on expanding sales and marketing; engineering is not expanding. Room for growth upward mobility is limited. The support load for the product is very high because the product is very complicated and somewhat brittle. This used to be a engineering lead company... not so much anymore.

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5.0
Sep 19, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Zenoss culture is supportive and collaborative. If you are a software development primadonna, look elsewhere. We all work together to create the best IT monitoring software on earth. And like a great team, we celebrate each other's achievements. We work together and win together on a GCP cloud stack with Docker containers, microservices, MongoDB, Firestore, GraphQL apis feeding a VueJS front-end. Flexible work schedule, work from home options, and a management team that keeps it real. You are informed of top-level decisions and why they were made. Every C-Level executive has an open door policy if you ever want to chat. The structure top-to-bottom is hands-down industry best practice. Zenoss is worth your time to check out.

Cons

It used to be no stay-at-home option, but that is gone now.

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2.0
Jan 2, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing, passionate technical talent -- the staff that remain at Zenoss are incredibly bright

Cons

- No dedicated sales leader and only a couple of sales reps left on the sales team, so no new sales - Whatever is happening in marketing isn't working, so no new sales - There's no product management, so engineering is busy developing features with very little input from or regard for what customers actually want/need - Customer support, success, services, and operations teams keep getting hit with layoffs due to floundering new sales while marketing org inexplicably remains mostly untouched (except for losing a backfill after someone left) - At this point the only value left in the company is their existing book of business and they're working to destroy that by crippling the teams that keep those customers renewing

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