QuinStreet reviews

1. I've noticed several reviews discussed flexibility and work-life balance. My particular manager required everyone to report to the office to work. You couldn't work from home when you or your child was sick, if you had car trouble, if you had an appointment that made it difficult to commute, and so on. I missed some important events (son's school plays and concerts) because I burned through my PTO sitting in pediatricians' offices and dealing with other necessary appointments. 2. Since leaving QuinStreet, I've discovered how out-of-touch it is with current research and best practices. I now have the perspective to look back on major projects and see why they failed. 3. Sometimes it was difficult to work with other teams. Editors have to work with developers frequently, and the developer I was assigned to did not produce quality work. It was a lot of little issues that really killed use experience and accessibility to information. I was usually given an explanation for these oddities and shortcuts, but some issues were so basic that I just couldn't trust him. Now that I've moved on, I realize just how poor the work really was. That isn't to say he wasn't talented -- he just wanted to do things his own way and was unwilling to collaborate.

In the engineering group, there is very little help or mentoring to help you get started. There is practically no process. People will routinely modify files directly on production servers with no regard. There is practically no QA department. It's basically all seat-of-your-pants programming. As for the title inflation, they use a strange form of performance grading where each promotion has "titles" such as manager, director, vice president, etc. But they are simply different bands and not indicative of whether the person actually had direct reports. Notice how so many people are director or VPs. Overall, pay is probably about 20% lower than industry average among the engineering department.