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4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

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94% approve of CEO

87% positive business outlook

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3.0
Sep 17, 2017

If you're a technical person, particularly a developer, it's great.

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Pros

1. Successful, stable, privately held company 2. Excellent benefits 3. Bonus structure 4. Work/life balance (if you meet certain unspoken expectations)

Cons

1. While work-life balance is promoted as one of the benefits, that's really only true dependent upon your manager, whether you're in development and if you are held in high regard by your manager and his/her superiors. 2. The company's core values imply an easy going, flatter organizational structure. Nothing could be further from the truth. The company is very hierarchical. Be aware of who the higher-ups are, and be smart about your interactions with fellow employees. 3. The review process is onerous, and ultimately unsatisfying. Self-reviews are part of the process, as is a lengthy review completed by your direct manager. Do not expect to be recognized for going above and beyond or for picking up difficult work that others won't or can't do. If you pick up such work and it impacts another area of your job or your "metrics", it will negatively impact your review. 4. Do not expect your review to reflect the type of raise or bonus you may receive. It's very likely you will receive a glowing review, and a small raise or bonus due to a variety of reasons: your stakeholder rating drives your bonus and raise amounts, not your review; there's is a complex compensation structure with defined limits particular to your staffing level, of which you are

4.0
Aug 19, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great office environment and facilities. Great culture and values. Good career growth opportunities if you are in the right area -- especially early on. Great place to start a career in professional software development. Self motivated individuals are highly rewarded. Lots of energy in some product areas. Steady/level-headed CEO. Lots of respect for bottom-up idea generation.

Cons

Aging customer base that pays most of the company's bills. As a result, upper management is very risk-averse and does not make bold moves that anticipate market changes or move the market in any meaningful way. Company is often playing catch-up. Company spends too much time giving an aging (albeit large) set of customers the exact thing that they ask for rather than what they really need. Different product areas sometimes seem to compete unnecessarily. The org-structure is too rigid and centered around particular products and roles rather than immediate business needs. This makes software development across multiple products unnecessarily challenging. Supporting roles, such as quality engineering, also belong to entirely different orgs with different sets of priorities which quite often do not align with the actual needs of a product at a particular point in its life-cycle. Middle/Upper management tends to intermittently micromanage product development. Career growth can plateau in some areas of the company leaving good people with no choice but to leave or face stagnation.

5.0
Jul 27, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

* Good work/life balance * Competitive compensation * Great Stake Holder Program * Very smart workforce * Great core values

Cons

I am quite happy here and do not see any big cons. Perhaps a tad too process oriented and things take time to get done.

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