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4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(5 total reviews)

Carey Jenkins

90% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

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3.0
Feb 1, 2019

Great people, listless company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- most people will experience a great work life balance - flexible working - employees are very good to eachother - company cares about community involvement and giving back (but...)

Cons

- community involvement and giving back is sporadic, because... - leadership is full of people that are new to those responsibilities, this has been a consistent problem... - company is not always financially stable as a result - historically has struggled with sales - diversity initiatives when its convenient For individuals - no opportunity to grow professionally, flat structure doesn’t work - heavy restrictions on conference spending, most likely you’ll need to just pay out of pocket - benefits and pay are not competitive - no 401k marching, no bonuses - some employees can be difficult to work with, and lack of management experience makes resolving slow and painful

5.0
Sep 8, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome, relaxed workplace with highly intelligent people. You get to work with small teams on interesting projects with a variety of clients, where developer input to product design is taken seriously, and you can go home after a 40 hour week. Expect to take initiative and be challenged to develop your skill set. Very Agile-focused development process, with an emphasis on TDD and fast turnaround of stories/projects. A great place to work if you want to take pride in your job and have a life outside of it. They go out of their way to identify talented, promising people, often from non-conventional backgrounds, over cookie-cutter CS graduates. About as un-Silicon Valley as you can get, I hope the culture here becomes the norm for Seattle!

Cons

You get paid a decent salary, but not stock options, so if you're looking to cash out a billionaire at 35 this place is not for you. Also not for you if you just want to be buried in the bowels of a 200-person team. There's not much of a ladder to climb, you'll have to prove yourself to the world on the virtues of your work not on your ability to play politics.

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