Nerdery reviews

Dogs. Some are fine to have around the office. But too many makes the office sound and smell like a kennel some days. Shockingly clique and immature and full of nepotism. Mixed messages: - "We aren't a 24/7 dev shop", but PM's are often asked why they didn't respond to a client email that someone on the chain that isn't involved or aware of the details in the project thought was urgent. Then comes the explaining your reasoning to at least 5 different people. - Bill, bill, bill. But provide great customer service. But why didn't you bill them for a call? They asked a question, you should bill them. Doesn't matter if they don't want to pay, it's a T&M project bill the time. Oh, but do what you think is best for your client and The Nerdery (just make sure you bill it). What money gets spent on. Conference rooms are notorious for being ill prepared technologically to present to clients. Video conferencing is too expensive, but taking over an entire hotel for a holiday party with 5 open bars from 6 pm to 2 am is a yearly necessity? Inexperienced company leadership. Inexperienced in that they aren't equipped to take the company past the turn and burn shop it's been. If they truly want to grow strategic partnerships and provide technological solutions, there need to be the right account managers selling and consistent project teams. Too many examples of resources starting a project and being pulled for a new engagement instead of insuring the first one gets completed properly.

It's High School 2.0...the worst parts of startup culture all in one! To start with, it's very political, with "who you know" determining your status and career path a whole lot more than "what you know". While The Nerdery preaches an open environment where developers can exercise their skills freely and learn new technologies, this isn't the case - in reality they expect developers to know everything (including their own internal processes related to code styling, commits, etc) without being educated on it. Then they proceed to hammer people in their 90-day reviews for not following processes they knew nothing about. You are at the mercy of your "mentor" (and I use that term VERY loosely) when joining the company - no matter how experienced of a developer you are, their sole feedback can make or break you. Different sets of rules and requirements also apply to you based on your social status (i.e. one person might be allowed to do something for which someone else would get written up - this happened to more than one person, all the time). In addition, they offer just one week of PTO for new employees. Projects often have vague requirements, QA does not often understand what they should be testing (developers create the use cases, and developers write the tests...) Friends and family members of executives receive positions and promotions for which they're unqualified, and they're granted much, much more leeway than the average employee. They also have an obsession with their late founder that borders on uncomfortable. Looking to join the Nerdery? When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.