Simplify3D reviews

2.6

40% would recommend to a friend

(8 total reviews)
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Clayton Webster

50% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

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2.0
Feb 13, 2017

Much to learn...

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Pros

-3D Printers were cool - Had some interesting projects - Worked with good people

Cons

This was by far the most secretive, mismanaged and frustrating company I ever worked for. There were no planning phases for any development projects, or even general scopes. There were no procedures or protocols for writing software and they were shot down quickly when suggestions / ideas were brought up. They have one person who does all the development on the main software and this leads to everyone else having no idea what the company is doing or what is coming in the future. Projects were usually just brought to you with an idea and then left with no management or general idea of what the leadership team would actually like to see. Projects were often forgot about or just totally shut down with no reason given. Developers and marketers are given no insight into number of customers and are not given access to any typical environments that would help to accomplish the typical jobs that a developer is given. The management team was often seen fighting and disagreeing and this lead to a toxic work environment. Turnover is extremely high due to many of the issues above plus a plethora of other issues.

2.0
Feb 10, 2017

Squandered Potential

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Pros

- 3D Printing - Small team so lots of potential

Cons

- 2 Headed management team; one hands off, while the other extremely micromanages - Software company that completely goes against industry standard development lifecycle - CEO is the sole viewer of product source code; employees are given tasks which are written completely from scratch and are standalone. Owner than extrapolates whatever information needed from project - Zero source control imposed or used by employees as projects have little to no collaboration. Unsure whether actual company product software uses source control - Zero bug/issue tracker used by employees, unsure whether actual company product software uses issue/bug trackers. Issues/bugs brought to attention of employees by customers/outside sources are given to CEO and whether or not they'll be fixed are up to his/her discretion - Since actual company software product is developed by a single individual, new changes/updates/features are a 'surprise' and only known about when a new release has been coded and ready for testing. This also seems to cause a lot of strain on the single developer. It is not uncommon to hear the developer said he/she went 14-18 hours straight writing/rewriting/fixing/tracking something down. Could easily be prevented if the development team was given more involvement. - Company information pretty much completely private and not shared with employees. Startup with less of a startup feel. No customer metrics, SEO, revenue, insight, etc are known by anyone but management.

1.0
Feb 10, 2017
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Pros

They consistently hire good employees, who are great to work with until they get frustrated with not being allowed to do real work by management and quit. The pay is competitive for the requisite experience and job title, just don't expect to be working on high-level projects or gain much useful experience.

Cons

The CEO and COO (son/mother respectively) are constantly condescending and treat everyone as though they're incompetent interns, keeping everything (even insignificant things like what project is up next the same week) top secret. Marketing staff relegated to giving out only canned answers on twitter and no insight into analytics. Full time engineers are put to work answering retail level customer support questions. Quality web developers have no input into the real product and are constantly having to rewrite basic things to meed managments ever changing (and poorly defined) whims.

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