- They recently did large layoffs and cut some good, loyal tech people who had stayed with Verisys through the exodus of 2020/2021 when the company had a massive wave of devs quitting.
- They dropped the ball on inflation. Verisys was still handing out 3% raises in 2022/23 and thinking that was ok. Remember that town hall meeting where Stabile put on his best stank face and sneered at us "if you don't like it, go work at McDonald's."? Yeah, that's the attitude of upper management. Market rate for dev/qa is increasing much faster than Verisys can keep up.
- Bonuses are rare, but they might dangle that carrot in front of you for your first year. The biggest problem is that bonus compensation lacks any definite structure. There is no written or official bonus plan, so if you do get a bonus it's at the whim of whatever squirrel-brained apparatchik is making the decision that day. Maybe you'll get mailed some infantilizing silly token like a Tibetan Singing Bowl for the Singing Your Praises Award. (This is a real thing, I'm not joking.)
- Terrible tech stack in some areas, especially the legacy Aperture / Advantage stuff. The code is so bad you will want to quit. Think VB6 and Windows Server 2000 and other long past EOL products. Literally every anti-pattern in the world can be found at this company.
- Benefits are so-so. Devs can get more PTO at just about any other employer. They've slapped a 6 year vesting schedule on the 401k match, which used to be 100% immediately vested. True, HR is doing some positives, like adding more holidays, but overall the bennies are trending downward. Other reviews have mentioned bereavement and maternity. You certainly can use your PTO for anything, including bereavement. But, a few years ago there was a separate policy giving you up to 3 extra days per loss for bereavement. They took that away (and during a pandemic, too!). As for maternity, after years of employees begging for a maternity policy and Charlie stonewalling them, they finally rolled out a bare bones policy. I don't think it includes any paternity leave though. Better than nothing, I guess.
- Too much outsourcing. You're an American company credentialing American providers for American insurance, so why outsource to India? That famous Indian quality is going to catch up with you. Heaps of offshore contractors are brought on without much vetting. After we sink hundreds of hours of effort training them, weeding out the frauds, fakes and ding-dongs we finally find a few half competent ones. Then, upper management terminates them all. A few months later they decide they need to hire another wave of contractors and the process repeats itself.
- Rotating cast of goofuses in upper management, especially tech roles. This includes the two west coast grifters who convinced the company to fire all their QA because the "code would test itself".
- In engineering they do the "rotating tech lead" scam, in which devs are told they have management potential and are asked to serve as tech/team leads with no change in title or pay. After doing lots of unpaid labor for free, the entire engineering dept is shuffled every 6 months and those leads end up as senior devs on a different team, whilst some new sucker has taken the bait as the new tech lead.
- Diversity in the C suite? Sure there's diversity! They've got old white guys and older white guys.
- Verisys is owned by private equity group Stonepoint Capital. Do your homework on what working for a PE owned company is like. Stonepoint operates by building a walled garden, so it's not as bad as other PE, but they will still try to wring every last penny out of the companies they buy.
