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2.0
Aug 20, 2013

Not happy

Recommend
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Pros

Free lunch in the cafeteria. Indoor parking. Norwalk is a pretty cool city.

Cons

Only $8/day stipend for lunch in the cafeteria. Does not rollover when not used. No free lunch on fridays. Food is mediocre. Only 3 weeks vacation that doesn't rollover. Hi co-pays and deductibles on health insurance. Bare minimum of holidays off; Thanksgiving day, xmas day, New Years day, for example. No satellite days. Florescent lighting everywhere. Too bright and uncomfortable. Doesn't use cutting edge software technologies and practices. Salary is below area average. Mostly hires straight out of college software engineers, so not a lot of experience in the talent pool to draw from. Overuse of C++ design patterns makes very unreadable code. ZERO policy for documenting code.

5.0
Jul 9, 2013
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Pros

Culture is overall strong and positive but varies by office. The people are extremely nice, rather smart and collaborative. Like everywhere, if you are really good you can kill it here over the long haul. Middle pack performers probably lag industry peers and the bottom gets flushed maybe a little too slow. Benefits are very good, cash pay is OK, but stock options are the key driver of wealth creation here. And that takes time. Senior Management is very capable and aided by a solid revenue model. Overall, great risk/reward career opportunity.

Cons

Process transition from small to mid-size company still under way. Slightly less investment decision delegation than ideal. Not a get rich quick kind of place. Fairly competitive industry. Hard to explain to your Mom what we do here.

2.0
Jun 29, 2013
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Pros

* Good benefits: 401k, healthcare, free lunch four days a week. * Good location in Midtown. * Quiet office. You get your own cubicle with lots of space. * The technology stack, while antiquated in some areas, is very well organized.

Cons

* The work gets boring very fast. There is often not enough work to do. You will see people surfing the web most of the day. * The office environment is very awkward. Everyone is separated into cubicles, with managers in offices far away. You rarely interact with your co-workers. I've gone days without speaking to anyone. Collaboration with your team is minimal. Everyone is given their own project and sent to work on it by themselves. * Don't expect to be challenged here. After one year, I had only ever worked on one project. * Working harder/faster gets you no where. All that ends up happening is you'll have lots of free time to sit around doing nothing. * Year end bonus is zero.

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