Flexential reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(461 total reviews)

Ryan Mallory

40% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Flexential has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 461 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Flexential 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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461 reviews
2.0
Mar 23, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

One upon a time, used to have a great culture and a real interest in developing the existing talent.

Cons

Laid off essential talent without regard to how it would affect the remaining few. Huge exodus due to current situation. Lots of the best employees at all levels leaving due to the high stress levels. Lots of yelling at the higher levels of the company. Very little feeling of engagement among the ones left. No real interest in anything outside sales - and to some extent customer support engineering since they do focus on not losing their existing customers.

2.0
Jun 4, 2018

Getting Really Bad

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Drinks and Snacks. Coworkers (but that's changing a lot of legacy is leaving) Some autonomy, but you'll hear about it if you do something that your boss wouldn't do. Starting to provide some training for job related courses or education. Unlimited PTO (see below for caveat)

Cons

Doesn't listen to anyone who is legacy and doesn't seem to care about their opinion. Attitude is to fire people who voice their opinion because they might be being negative, even though there is no proof that it's effecting moral. Was in a meeting where they gave an 'hypothetical' situation of this, and their response really was just to try and get rid of the person. Company hired DCTs (back when it was two companies starting a merge) promised a raise in 6-9 months and didn't deliver because of the merge. Won't even bump them up in pay to the level that they're hiring new staff on. Upper HR seems very cold and distant on the issue and doesn't seem to care. Their help desk is horrible when you try and get help they don't respond for weeks on end. This is largely due to what appears to be rather really poorly organized merge of systems between the system, so it might go a way given enough time. Benefits cost shot up. And they hide it under the guise of this HSA, which seems like a good idea for anyone who is 100% healthy for years on end. We had better and cheaper benefits before. Manager and Managers Managers don't even visit the sites, they just sit up at their offices and don't interact with any of the front line staff except through email. Upper management is really disconnected. They only seem like all numbers people and only things they care about is the money aspect. Don't seem to really care about the people or how the operations go. They run unlimited PTO but they do a skeleton crew so trying to find availability is tough. Long 12 hr shifts for customer interacting positions. Don't care to up staff to even give people 4 days x 10 hrs, it's 3 days x 12 hrs. So if you have life outside of work, you don't while on shift. You get a longer weekend. It works for some and some actually like it.

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Flexential Response
7y
Thank you for leaving feedback. The leadership and the management team is working hard to get out to sites regularly. We pride ourselves on having regular opportunities for interaction - through All Hands, local Town Halls, the Flex 15, and our departmental meetings as well as 1/1 meetings with employees. The company has worked hard building out a strong benefits offering. We are spending the same or more on our benefits plans but the money is distributed a number of different ways rather than investing every dollar into a medical plan. We now offer 2 medical plans including an HSA with seed money, increased life and AD&D for any employee that makes over $50k, a bonus plan for all exempt employees (where previously most employees in the West were not bonus eligible) and an increased 401k match. We also increased leave opportunities for maternity and paternity leave as well as offer unlimited PTO. It's our expectation from our management team that unlimited PTO is fully supported. When we hear that it isn't being fully embraced, we act on it immediately. It's important that this policy isn't a "surface" policy. We mean it and stand behind it 100%.
2.0
Apr 27, 2018

They call us Flexperts now

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They started a Star Awards program with unlicensed use of Star Wars material.

Cons

They call us Flexperts now, which according to urban dictionary means "a poor guy in IT business forced to use dead technos." I guess you get what you get when you are late to the .com name game.

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Flexential Response
7y
Thanks for the feedback. We offer a formal rewards and recognition program that offers a cash award and a fun take on Star Wars. We purchase some licensed material and we do some themes that are generally pop themes. We refresh our R&R program about every 2 years so I hope you will like the new theme we roll out in 2019. Just like Flexential - Flexpert is a play on a word and not meant to be an actual word. For our use, it denotes an Expert that works at Flexential.
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