Metova reviews

3.4

64% would recommend to a friend

(64 total reviews)

Josh Smith

73% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Metova has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 64 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Metova 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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64 reviews
1.0
Aug 31, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work schedules for developers who have proven to be autonomous.

Cons

Metova has been in survival mode for the past 6 months or so after losing various contracts. Over this time period the company has struggled to bring in new clients which has lead to two rounds of lay offs (mostly developers) to attempt to bring the company out of the red. Severe lack of communication between sales, upper management and developers. This leads to terribly estimated efforts and frustrated developers. Up until about a year ago this was one of the biggest strengths of the company. Current management is actively working on trying to fix this. Morale is absolutely shot due to developers constantly being in fear of losing their jobs. Metova has lost a lot of great developers within the last one to two years due to resignations and lay offs. Due to the troubling times and lack of money this talent has not been replaced.

2.0
Aug 26, 2018

Make Metova Great Again

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

At one point, the company was great and had a lot of potential to be a great place to work, including a set of core values that most everyone bought into. The work environment is casual and flexible. A lot of the developers there really care and want to do good work.

Cons

As of right now, the company is struggling with financial and retention issues. They've always paid developers fairly poorly relative to the market, and I'm sure the current situation is not helping that any. The tension of the financial situation also means less than ideal working conditions because the company is in "survival" mode. Employee needs have taken a backseat to making the clients happy because clients can not afford to be lost. Unfortunately, these have led to many decisions that feel like short-term gains with very high long-term cost (like employee retention). Communication and transparency is not practiced well. As a developer, I often didn't know or understand what management was doing or why, and I didn't feel empowered to raise concerns. New management feels very disconnected from employees because of these reasons. I don't think that the current situation is all the current management team's fault - there were major decisions made by previous management that helped put the company in the state it is in today, but the new management does not seem effective at recovering from that. It is a tough situation to be in, so I think even the best management team is going to have to make unpleasant decisions. But I think this team could be better about how the handle those decisions, especially in regards to communication. It is unclear if they will be able to get out of this bad situation.

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