Empowered reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(26 total reviews)
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Nadeem Khan

73% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Empowered has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 26 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Empowered employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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26 reviews
1.0
May 25, 2015

small company with narrow minded management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

At least they have adopted some current software technologies. Free snacks, coffee and sodas, enough to get people fat.

Cons

This is a small company started with some friends and they only care about a few core people belonging to this family, and has no clue on how to manage and attract some talented people like software developers or BAs, rather than run the company like a school camp. The management team is very narrow minded and encourages micromanagement or control freaks, which drove away many talented people, but junior programmers. People come and go in short time, and there's only a few (besides the management or some core people) having stayed in the company for more than 3 years, which speaks for itself about this company. Any yet, they are self congratulating for their limited success in the market. The best advise is 'RUN', unless you only want to stay there for a few months until you find your next job.

4.0
Apr 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Working on a brand-new product, so it was almost all new development as opposed to maintenance and bug fixing other people's code. What I especially enjoyed was that as opposed to working on little things here and there without a chance to see the big picture (well, some of that too, but no more than normal), developers were given sizable features to work on and own. It was nice to be able to build features from start to finish. These features started with a tech doc/BRD so didn't have to do the requirements piece of it, and they had a good web team so I didn't have to worry about it making it pretty. Overall, one of my best jobs. It was nice to be treated as a professional, trusted to write meaningful code, and not micro-managed.

Cons

Around releases it can get rather intense- lot of code to crank out/polish up quickly. Think that was mostly due to it being a new product- things seemed to be hitting a good sustainable pace when I left.

2.0
Aug 28, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Nerf wars and free food occasionally

Cons

Not very much guidance given when taking on new projects and when the outcome of the work comes out wrong, you are blamed for it even if you did what your supposed to be doing.

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