May 14, 2012
FrontRange Solutions Software Engineer reviews
3.4
33% would recommend to a friend
Jon Temple
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3 reviews
5.0
Jul 11, 2011
Recommend
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Pros
Products are very complex and interesting, lots of chances to work on threading, memory issues, performance tuning, scalability, and newest technologies. Apps are metadata driven, also rare to get to work on these. Pay is good, managers are (most of them) good to work for, and most teams seem to have very good work-life balance. Company is doing well and has a chance to really explode.
Cons
Pleasanton can feel a long way from the Bay Area. There are a few senior people here who aren't easy to get along with, but most of those kinds of people have been weeded out over the last few years. 3 weeks of unpaid shutdown give you lots of family time, but they come at the expense of getting paid (or you just use your PTO for the shutdowns, which most people here do.) It can still feel a little more "corporate" here than in Silicon Valley (but you're not working 70 hour weeks either).
2.0
Feb 26, 2010
Recommend
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Pros
- good pay - lower management seems to understand software - good development environment (build system works, db scripts work most of the time, etc) - if your not working the software department you can expect reasonable work hours - get yummy donuts once in a while - all the free coffee and tea you can drink - funny office space type culture
Cons
- extremely high pressure for the software department - engineers routinely put in 70+ hours a week, working on weekends - death march mentality - unrealistic deadlines - management plays favorites - engineers look unhappy at daily meetings
