Tillster reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(127 total reviews)

Perse Faily

61% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Tillster has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 127 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tillster employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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127 reviews
1.0
Dec 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get paid decently.

Cons

Not for a lack of trying on some of the staff here, but none of the products that are being created are unique, innovative or even that well executed. This is mostly due from leadership that is stuck in the stone-age and their unwillingness to really listen to their staff and a real lack of any real resources, definitive or clear direction. The main problem is leadership has not evolved with the times and they suffer from their own narcissism. Everything is micromanaged within an inch of its life. Not only is the executive leadership bad and frankly just plain odd. The absolute worst thing for anyone as an employee there is middle management (Directors, PMs), who either can’t do their jobs or refuse to do their jobs or a little of both. These people should be doing their best to shield their staff from the horrific bad executive team and keep the teams motivated but they do the opposite. Do not expect your boss to go to bat for you. Absolutely do not expect your boss to try and create a team that fosters thought leadership, comradely and productivity. In fact there is more of a separation and animosity amongst everyone. Every man for themselves is how things function. The sense of smugness is palpable. So what do you do when you need help or information to get your job done? You will hear, either nothing. Literally your boss will not answer your emails or requests to discuss something. Or even worse you'll get a curt response to dismiss you for asking for help, information etc. You’ll also hear things like "That is not part of my job”, or “I don't want to get involved" … an eye ball roll. They must think this management style makes them appear important (?) but mostly it is because they have no clue what they are doing and are trying to cover it up. So a lot of the rudeness can be chalked up to insecurity and being easily threatened(?). To top it all off, there is absolutely no trust from your boss/leadership to get anything done properly. Regardless of a proven professional track record or even a passion and obvious talent to do so. It will not matter at Tillster. Coupled with absolutely no real process or respect to best practices nothing can get accomplished as it should. I could go on but I think the point is made.

1.0
Nov 2, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary is paid on time Decent benefits Growing market opportunity

Cons

Simply speaking, the executive management is extremely dysfunctional and incompetent, like nothing I have ever seen in any other company. There is no vision, no objectives, no strategy, no processes, no guidelines, nothing! It starts with the CEO and other top executives (VPs). They are rich (Venture Capitalists) but totally incompetent at managing the business. However, they believe they are genius, super smart cause they got money, and believe they can overwork and throw any decent employee under the bus cause they own the money. They don't take responsibility for their mistakes and terrible management, but blame it always on the overworked and stressed out employees. They don't know how to run a growing business or even the basics for creating a profitable business. This business will never ever be profitable under the current management. They do not want to. That's clear in their decisions, day to day actions and deals. It goes so against conventional and rational business practices that after 10 years of private funding, it's really incredible they can still get funded. It's just hard to believe. However, good thing they do cause they can pay salaries for many overworked and unmotivated people. The unlimited availability of capital without business results and unbelievable support to such poor and deficient executive management, makes me think the board of directors are intentionally blind or in total denial.

4.0
Oct 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company is on a real roll. Its customers are pushing it to go to new markets and add new products. Big revenue increases have happened since I came. the products are getting bigger and are being used broadly.

Cons

Still some growing pains, but definitely better. When you speak up, company actually listens, but shouldnt have to speak up. There has been turn over, but some of it is good

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