Espial reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(38 total reviews)
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Jaison Dolvane

85% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Espial has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 38 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Espial 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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38 reviews
2.0
Feb 1, 2018

Software Developer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice work environment and teams to work with

Cons

Sinking ship without any good management

2.0
Feb 1, 2018

All Scrum and no work!

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

Great people, great pay, great benefits!

Cons

They practice scrum in a way that focuses more on process than work. They hire and fire aggressively.

2.0
Jan 31, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice people, I genuinely enjoyed working with my teammates Relaxed environment, no need to burn out working crazy overtime

Cons

Management is very disorganized, I can relate to the reviewer who said management choices are made by throwing darts at a board. Frequent reorganizations and redirection, I never saw them stick with one strategy long enough to reasonably assess its effectiveness. Penny-wise and pound-foolish, this company is incredibly cheap, refuses to spend money on needed supplies and equipment, on business trips they require use of a rideshare service instead of renting a car even when the rental car would have worked out cheaper. Textbook example of "cargo cult" Agile, focused almost entirely on process despite preaching the Agile mantra of focus on shipping quality software rather than process and tools. Very little oversight or mentoring, flat organization with the intent being self organizing teams leaves very little room for mentoring and career growth. Huge amount of technical debt, bugs and tasks keep getting pushed out to future sprints. Very little QA effort with no comprehensive integration testing leads to poor quality product. Product and internal tool design decisions get passed down from upper management that doesn't actively use the products they are dictating the look and feel of, with complete disregard for the feedback from engineering. No titles, you were a senior engineer with your previous employer? Too bad, these titles do not exist here. Company self describes as a "mature startup" despite being around for some 20 years. Throughout this time they have achieved only enough success to avoid dying.

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