Nerdery reviews

Over the last 5 years, the company has really changed. It now has a distinct lack of empathy for it's employees. More and more people who work there are just treated as "resources" and not individuals. The company also has no real direction. They've been talking about competing with companies like Accenture, but fail to actually make substantive moves in that direction. The end result is that sales, PM, and dev aren't aligned because there's not a clear vision that unites the company. Senior management is woefully unqualified to be running a company that is trying to compete with established consulting firms. I sat in the office of the CEO multiple times and walked away feeling less confident about the future of The Nerdery each time. Turnover has gotten really bad recently. A lot of the top talent that have been there for 6+ years have been leaving over the past year or two. It doesn't seem like that's going to change any time soon. Finally, communication from leadership is terrible. It consistently scores the lowest among employee engagement survey results. Partially that's because there isn't a coherent vision to communicate and partially that's because they have the wrong people in leadership roles doing the communicating.

They don't pay competitively, they try to lure you in under the guise that you are "special" because of their low acceptance rates and you quickly realize that it's not all that cool. It's very dirty, very dirty. Their main HQ office is a total dump compared their KC and Chicago offices, but they don't seem to want to invest. The new CEO leads with his emotions and doesn't really have any true business experience. The amount of turnover is astounding. You may get hired as a developer and sit on the bench for months with nothing to do but watch the clock tick.