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      StrongMind Software Developer reviews

      3.0

      5% would recommend to a friend

      (13 total reviews)

      Damian Creamer

      5% approve of CEO

      5% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      2.7

      Work/Life balance

      2.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.1

      Compensation and benefits

      2.0

      Culture & values

      1.7

      Career opportunities

      1.2

      Senior management

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      13 reviews
      4.0
      Jul 20, 2019

      Some Perspective on what I have seen

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      While many reviews here are accurate, I must say I have seen some things. I have seen bad managers get demoted to 'senior engineers', I have seen bad employees get fired after a year or so, I have seen management change even when I thought there was no chance of them improving. I have seen people change their gender and become accepted by the company. I have seen at least two market adjustments that gave people raises over 10%.

      Cons

      I have seen people fired for doing an awesome job for many years. I have seen developers (curriculum and software) choose to leave to find something better. I have seen sales dictate the development cycle. I have seen directors not putting the student first but maintaining power. I have seen multiple people fired right after getting a kudos in front of the quarterly company meetings. I have seen under-qualified people hired and carried as dead weight (this would be fine with some kind of rigorous improvement plan). I have seen people getting 3% or even no raise after working very hard. I have seen people promised raises, that got nothing and were told to wait until next year.

      4.0
      Jul 7, 2018

      Strongmind - It's what you make of it!

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Being an employee here for several years, I've found that Strongmind (formerly Flipswitch) has always been a place that lets you mold it into what you want of it. Leadership favors the employees that add cultural value and go beyond to make the place a better work environment (what company doesn't like those kind of employees). There is room at Strongmind to come in and work your 8 to 5, but you may not see much internal growth, and may find yourself on the outside of company values. The company is favorable in regards to innovation, new technologies, career growth through learning. The CEO dreams big, so there are a lot of projects that come down to teams for opportunity to innovate and work with cutting edge development tools. The company is financially secure from what I know, and has above average benefits for an IT company. All the necessary medical benefits, 401k (3% match), gym/yoga studio, opportunity to join work leagues (softball/bowling/etc). Leadership does a pretty good job being transparent and goals are communicated well to give a good picture of the company going forward. I always felt that management encourage individuals to bring up concerns for discussion/resolution. The people that work at Strongmind are amazing. They like to have a lot of fun and very genuine group. You can build some very strong relationships with people from every department in the company.

      Cons

      Although a big portion of the company vision makes sense and most employees can see the value of it (decouple of monolithic applications, lead the market with rich self-authored course content), I do believe implementation for displaying/assessing that content and newly developed application Courseware (formerly CoursePlayer) may have gone in a direction that has brought a lot of concern to internal teams/employees. Deadlines have sped up the development life-cycle and releases have gone out with some issue, and lack of feature parity of legacy CoursePlayer. Communication among-st leadership is still a work in progress. There have been several instances where same-level management has not been aligned with the same short-term decisions/goals. The company has more of a flattened management level, which overall can be a good thing, but comes with some negative. Not a clear path for individual career goals to transition to a management role in most departments (IT/Creative/Curriculum).

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      StrongMind Response
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      Thank you for taking the time as a former employee to write your positive review. StrongMind does have an amazing team. We appreciate your additional feedback and certainly take it into consideration as we continue to strive for improvement and excellence.
      2.0
      Jul 6, 2018

      Software Engineer

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great facilities, latest technology, team work, management is trying to get better

      Cons

      Lack of company focus , shaky industry

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