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Four Winds Interactive

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Four Winds Interactive reviews

2.9

45% would recommend to a friend

(224 total reviews)

David Levin

63% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Four Winds Interactive has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 224 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Four Winds Interactive employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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224 reviews
2.0
May 23, 2017

Great product, Poorly managed company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company produces a great product. I have been happy to work with FWI customers and honestly believe the core products are good. There is a lot of room for growth at the company. There are a lot of internal promotions and management is good at promoting from within. Numerous people get promoted out of entry level positions into positions of higher responsibility. The people there are great, but the good people seem to be leaving at an alarming rate. The new office is nice.

Cons

The company does not provide sick days - people have to use their vacation if they are sick. This results in a lot of people coming into work sick. It is disgusting. HR is a complete joke. As another reviewer noted, they frequently gossip about other employees, so you can't trust that they will keep things confidential. The employee handbook for 2017 hasn't been made available to employees yet. Professional development is another joke. They rolled out "professional development plans" that no one takes seriously. Management does not seem to care about the professional development of their employees. People are promoted to management positions based on their technical skills rather than their ability to lead or manage. Many managers revel in meetings instead of making things easier for the people they are managing. The process to fire a low performer is long and arduous and poor performing employees are kept around way too long to do damage. Sexual harassment seems to be tolerated with no action taken against employees who have had repeated complaints made against them. Cronyism is rampant. If you are friends of the CEO you will succeed. Even if you fail repeatedly, as long as you are one of the CEO's favorites you will get promoted. The upper management of the company tends to make decisions about a week in advance and is very resistant to improving processes based on past mistakes. Instead of creating a system that prevents problems, they seem to have an attitude of leaning on hard working employees to clean up messes.

1.0
Jun 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are none, but if any it would be alcohol on Fridays in the office. It was a good way to wash away all the bad memories with all the chaos, poor procedures, and trying to forget bed bugs in the office.

Cons

The pay is below market value. They talk about rhino sex during company meetings **Company meeting at Denver Art Museum.** They've had bed bugs in building and said it wasn't a big deal. **3rd floor stay clear** Procedure changes weekly and the place is chaotic. This place is more or less a stepping stone and if for any reason you are crazy or just that desperate for a job I would apply here.

2.0
Feb 8, 2022

Low pay, short-sighted leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people were generally great to work with—good teamwork, good humor, and flexible scheduling. I was given autonomy to do my work and was well supported by my team. When COVID hit, I felt like my team and I were very well supported in immediately transitioning to WFH. The DEI initiatives also took steps to make the culture more inclusive.

Cons

If you are an employee of FWI, they will bend you until you break and pay you way below industry standard while they’re at it. During my time there, FWI’s strategy was to, above all, protect the company bottom line. That meant keeping more money in the company by underpaying existing employees and not backfilling roles when people left. They backfilled roles and promoted people just enough to be able to say they did, but promotions weren’t paired with a raise that would pay them commensurate with the market. And, of course, whether you were officially given a promotion or not, you were very likely given more work and responsibility over time—just not more money. The strategy was to keep teams lean to save money in the short term. This was a really demoralizing space to work in. I’m not sure why there were still so many issues there when the company leadership took multiple employee surveys over time to anonymously get feedback on problems and solutions. They knew what the problems were. I suspect the solution in many cases involved them spending money, and they wouldn’t do that. There just were not enough team members there to offer excellent customer service for a complicated product in a chaotic environment. There were countless times when I needed to get a question answered—typically to solve a customer issue. I’d get passed from person to person and never really get an answer. “Nobody knows” was pretty much the status quo. A failure of leadership to support putting processes in place led to overworked employees having no idea what was going on and not knowing where to go to figure it out. And where the passing off of tasks was done intentionally, there was no accountability for it. I can’t recommend working there. The company was revenue-centric and disorganized to the detriment of both employees and customers. My mental and physical health have been much better since I left.

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