Mersive reviews

3.3

43% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)
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Robert Balgley

58% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

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1.0
Jul 3, 2018

Beware!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most of the people are good and great to work with. The office is an open, casual environment and there is a fully stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks plus you can bring your dog. The parking is free to employees or they give you a stipend for RTD. Benefits are decent but nothing spectacular and generous PTO policy (don’t plan on actually being able to take time off and enjoy it). Chris (founder) is awesome, truly has a passion for the company and product and it shows - one of the best things/people there!

Cons

Where to begin... Complete lack of communication. Once a project or initiative starts the communication ends. Management doesn’t seem to understand they need to tell employees what’s going on, we can’t read your mind. And make sure everyone who is involved has all the info needed to do their job. Once management makes a decision to do something the communication ends with them and somehow everyone else should just know what to do. You are expected to work 24/7. If you get an email at any time you better respond. Don’t plan on taking any time off and enjoying it. Someone will call/text/email you the whole time. Including holidays and weekends. And you better plan on long days in the office. If you aren’t at your desk or in your office for 12+ hours a day you aren’t working hard enough. Management walks around the office after 5 to see who’s still there and takes note. Even if you are done with your work at 4:30 and maybe you got in a little early that day, you better stay put until after 5. If you don’t look stressed out of your mind then clearly you aren’t working hard enough. There is ABSOLUTELY NO work/life balance. At all. Forget any personal life or life outside the office. Mersive comes before EVERYTHING else, including family, friends, health, etc. Oh yeah, and don’t plan on working from home. They say it’s ok but it’s not. It’s because management can’t keep tabs on you like they can at the office. They don’t trust employees to work from home so you better be in the office. Compensation/Promotions. Ha! The only way to get a raise is to kiss management’s butt. Not based on merit or actual hard work. If you play their game of sitting at your desk for 12 hours a day (even if you are on Facebook or online shopping) then you will get a raise. The titles and promotions are also a joke. Same as before, if you can kiss butt but suck at your job, you’ll get a promotion! That may seem cool but it’s a total slap in the face to the truly hardworking, good employees there. Employee development. None. No reviews, plans or goal setting. Employees must take the initiative, nothing comes from management. They don’t care to develop employees and want to help reach their career goals and potential. They put people in management roles (not company management but have people reporting to them) and they give no training or help what so ever.

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We always appreciate feedback from our staff be it positive or negative - we're intent on improving and transparency and a two way discussion is a top priority for us. It's always hardest for us to hear this kind of negative feedback from a former employee because it's a missed opportunity. Whenever we interview candidates we try to be clear about the culture, pace, required level of aptitude, and stage of development. Based on this reviewers experience we clearly missed the mark when it came to setting expectations because it's true that self direction and self advocacy are critical in this kind of environment and absent those qualities I can understand how someone would end up feeling disenfranchised. Start-ups that grow at our pace are not for everyone - and I am sincerely sorry that we misrepresented the challenges you would face working here. I won't try to address all the feedback here other than to say I wish this individual would have given me or management an opportunity to remedy or correct what I consider to be false impressions. I would like to correct two statements - we don't actually have a formal work from home policy, and to the best of my knowledge we have never refused anyone PTO (4 weeks) and I've been CEO here for 8 years.
2.0
Jun 19, 2018

Used to be a decent place to work

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Pros

The office in Denver has free parking, and is close to a lot of things, if you live in the area

Cons

Since the sale of the company to a private equity firm, there has been a TON of turnover. Mostly due to their lack of employee satisfaction. Salaries are stagnant, bonus's non-exisitant. no attempt to retain employees what so ever

4.0
Jul 4, 2017
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Pros

Mersive is a great place to work on cutting edge technology in a very laid back, relaxed environment with great people. Management does a great job of growing the business and definitely prioritizes the well being of employees, irrespective of their roles. There is always open, clear, and honest communication without arbitrary vertical/horizontal barriers. Mersive takes pride in its ability to bring world-class collaboration products to market and make them work in various corporate ecosystems, and it's quite energizing to be part of the team that delivers that level of excellence.

Cons

Being a smaller company, resources for building the absolute best processes/practices can be a bit scarce at times. Certain roles like QA and Support seem to be overloaded with work while others have much more relaxed schedules. While it is a very open culture, performance reviews are non-compulsory and the company doesn't take individual development seriously; discussions over performance and employee growth are heavily deprioritized in favor of myopic focus on building the next cutting edge product feature or helping customers. Compensation is average and there are no annual bonuses for IC employees, which is unheard of in the modern landscape of engineering firms.

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