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      Nexient reviews

      3.6

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (260 total reviews)
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      Allen Debes

      64% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

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      Nexient has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 260 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nexient 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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      260 reviews
      3.0
      Jul 19, 2020

      Average Company

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work life balance, friendly and collaborative colleagues

      Cons

      It is a good place for some, worse for most others. It all depends on your projects, clients and managers. I say that because generally the colleagues are wonderful. Met with some of the nicest people while working here. But. And its big BUT. Some managers and directors can be a real pain in the neck. Nexient does have some people in the management who were hired not because of their competence, but because of their association to a particular country. These people for some reason can never speak the truth. I do not know why the CEO Mark (who I regard as a nice person) never took any actions to get rid of them because lots of employees I knew felt the same way. Working in Nexient can turn to your worst nightmare if the manager is as bad as most reviewers have talked about. And Nexient has quite a few of them. I knew one who would go almost crazy if he found anyone on the team missing from the desk even for 5 minutes. He would start asking others "Where is A? Have you seen B? When did C leave the desk?". Have had a manager who would choose to remain silent in the face of angry outbursts from the client and then would express his frustration only when the meetings were over. I was lucky to have few excellent team leaders who would choose to lead by example of pure talent, first class communication skill, fine character, grace and dignity; not by reprimands, mockery and fear. Nexient does fire people apparently for no reason and with no prior notice. I guess its because employees are paid so less that the top most management knows most are not going to stay longer anyways and they can always hire recent graduates with that awfully low pay. Sitting on the bench and jumping from one project to another in a short span of time can be real frustrating.

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      Nexient Response
      5y
      Thank you for providing feedback. Nexient's senior leadership and I are genuinely interested in understand the challenges you mention related to managers. When we have specific information about challenges, we address them. If you have specific information, I would encourage you to share it with me directly (either via email or send me a note to set up time to talk). Two points you mention that I disagree with: - We have never hired anyone because of their association to a particular country (we have a 100% US-based workforce and we serve clients in the US, so I'm not sure what this would mean in our context?). - We strive to give employees regular feedback informally and formally about their performance and how to continually grow their knowledge and skills. If you know of a specific case where we fell short of that, please reach out to me and share the details.
      1.0
      Jun 11, 2020

      Not Agile

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      free pop, pretty nice desks

      Cons

      They tout themselves as being super Agile. Not even close. I wouldn't even call it Waterfall. Like a lot of shops, they use Agile as an excuse to discard the extensive planning and documentation of Waterfall and replace it with Agile terminology, but with almost zero understanding of Agile principles. Every project I was involved in either already had hard timelines built in by the last wave of suckers that had since left, or the current engineers were required to provide hard timelines for proposed functionality that was very, very poorly defined. Engineers (even Seniors such as myself who are often older than their superiors) are generally treated like children. It might be a good first job for young people in order to get their feet wet. It's essentially a body shop. It might also be a good job for people who want to play politics to try and climb the corporate ladder. I witnessed some folks having success in that arena.

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      Nexient Response
      6y
      I'll respectfully disagree with your conclusions on a few fronts. There are a number of people throughout the organization who have an extremely deep understanding of Agile. ,We always take a pragmatic approach to Agile. The reality of our clients' environments does not always allow for a purist view of Agile to be implemented (they have many constraints from both their history and their market pressures). We always strive to help our clients transform their processes to become more Agile and more product-minded and its a big reason for our strong growth with both new and existing clients. Not every client can transform as quickly as we or they would like. I don't know the specifics of the engagement you worked on or what leads you to think of it as a "body shop." Over 80% of our work is sold and executed in teams that we lead. These cross-functional product teams are a strength of the company and another key reason for our strong growth. I'm always open to speak to employees and former employees directly about their experience. My goal is to learn from you and make changes to improve Nexient. If you are open to it, please reach out to me directly. Mark
      1.0
      Apr 26, 2020

      Don't work here.

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      None. This company promotes incompetent people to senior sales rep positions, who in turn lie and stab in the back the people who work for them.

      Cons

      Pathetic back stabbing management. There are no repercussions for their behavior either. I can't emphasize this enough. Any fool can be a sales VP/manager in this company. They attack the developers with lies.

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      Nexient Response
      6y
      At Nexient, we're always looking to learn and to improve how we operate. Its a core part of the Agile methodology, which is at the center of our culture and how we approach business. Another core part of how we work is honest communications with each other and with our clients. We have an incredibly strong leadership team who are focused on working with our team members to deliver great work to our clients while constantly developing our team members. When I read your review, it seems disconnected from the leadership team that I work closely with every day. We typically refer to our team members by their roles. For example, client partners, general managers, or account executives. So when you refer to a "Sales VP/Manager," I'm not sure who you might be referring to. As always, I'd like to understand your specific situation so I can learn from it, and if appropriate, address it specifically. Please reach out to me directly and share more specific information.
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