Simplify3D reviews

2.6

40% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)
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Clayton Webster

50% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

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14 reviews
1.0
Jul 12, 2017

Much to be desired

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Interesting Industry - Decent Salary/Benefits - Talented coworkers

Cons

- The COO and CEO are a Mother/Son team, which they do not disclose during the interview process (including the COO using her maiden name instead of her legal married name in all external communications.) They can be found to both argue openly in the office and are constantly passive aggressive towards each other, making things awkward for all of the other employees. The CEO and COO regularly try to go over each other's heads, making it difficult to know whose direction to follow on a project. - The PTO pool includes both vacation and sick days which leads you being afraid to take vacation days in case you get sick in the future and need the time off (including medical emergencies!) - Upper management seems more concerned about artificially making the business seem bigger than it is in (including unnecessary office renovations/expansions) order to inflate their ego, rather than focusing on what the employees/company really need. - Employee retention is very low, with most employees leaving after less than a year which makes it challenging to collaborate across departments. - Upper management has the mentality of a large corporation instead of a startup in regards to workflow, which means they are behind in a lot of aspects compared to their more agile competitors.

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

Anonymous employee
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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.

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