Futurex reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(73 total reviews)

Brett Smith

56% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Futurex has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 73 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Futurex 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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73 reviews
2.0
Mar 13, 2016

Software Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some of the software engineers are cool. C++ and C have some fun aspects to them. There is a tennis court on the campus

Cons

Suspiciously no one there is very old except the executives. They are very zealous about reputation management on this site. To a ridiculous degree. All the software is poorly architected to a painful extent. There are a lot of bugs.

1.0
May 21, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers. Spurs games. Campus is north of the city, so traffic isn't a thing. Very homey feel. Free snacks in the "break room". Great chance to learn very interesting technology in a very niche field.

Cons

I said "break room" before because you get in trouble for taking a break. You think the pay is good until you see how much you work, then you realize it should be hourly because you will almost always be forced to work 50+ hours a week or you will fall behind and get in trouble. Talking pay with coworkers is forbidden and you can be fired for it. Most of the time you are paid solely based on experience and not results. If you are not part of the inner circle, good luck climbing the ranks. The Solutions Architect team are overworked and management refuses to hire extra people. Management prides themselves on only hiring "All Stars" so if you get an offer then they think highly of you. But this means you will go months or sometimes years without replacements. Costumer expectations are always mismanaged and it always adds extra work. Remote work during the pandemic was none existent. WFH started and ended in about 30 days. After that, constant COVID exposures happened and being able to work from home again was extremely difficult.

1.0
Sep 1, 2016

Futures Has Done it Again!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They make you write twenty words here to post a review, there aren't twenty words to say about this company in the pro category. I guess a pro would be they win a meaningless Best Place to Work in San Antonio award that anyone who enters themselves in wins. To be fair they bribe and bully the employees to give good reviews on the surveys sent to them for it.

Cons

I've heard this company being described and "Being in the driver's seat of a Ferrari." Sadly that quote was just a sound bite of the full description which is "Being in the driver's seat of a Ferrari you have no control over that's heading full speed into a brick wall." The utter lack of management skill is apparent as soon as you get hired. People unqualified to lead others, or even be in charge of a department they have no experience in, fill the high ranks of the company. If you're not one of the CEO's favorites don't expect to move up in the ranks. I saw people get fired because they didn't hold the CEO in God like status (yes that's a capital G). I've also seen someone get fired because a potential hire was threatening to press charges for stalking after an employee stole her resume and began to message her on social media. This person was then hired back at the sister company Virtucrypt and the incident swept under the rug. Why am I writing this review today? Because the company just fired about half of the employees because they couldn't afford to pay them. This was due to their next generation of product failing to release. I'm curious if the CEO decided to reduce his multi-million dollar salary before firing the employees that made an average of 50k a year. But at least the company is still debt free right? While these jobs are salary you'll be expected to work 60+ hours a week, but you're required to be there 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM. 30 minutes late? You'll have to deduct that from your vacation. Need to visit a doctor? Vacation. They even went as far as to not give any days off for Christmas and New Years this year because they both fall on weekends. My advice to those seeking employment in this company? Don't. Plain and simple. It might seem like a good opportunity at first, but once you see the rotten core you'll wish you had taken a position at another company.

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