Volusion reviews

They have 3 platforms, which leads to internal confusion, envy, and a loss of identity. Material, the product, was born from a UI interaction idea. That's not enough to build a new product on, let alone a new company. Volusion, the product, is like Grandpa who has been put in the old folks home, and only a few relatives visit on occasion. Mozu was originally going to be the cool, new, modern replacement for the old legacy Volusion platform, but they hired architects and developers from Dell and let them go. They built the wrong thing, something not SMB. So the company decided to launch it it as their Enterprise platform. It was kind of an accident, and you know how most kids who are accidents turn out. At least one of the parents is bitter, and then there's divorce and alcoholism. There have many layoffs and quitters since I left. And since they implemented "Unlimited PTO" and Work From Home, I hear the place is a ghost town. Lastly, the development area was an embarrassment. The open floor plan is noisy and trashy. Desks were very close together. It was an obstacle course. Old pants hang from the ceiling, and prints of "Taco" go up the walls. Christmas decorations never come down. People use noise-cancelling ceiling panels to separate workspaces (making their own little forts). A life-sized cutout of Justin Beiber with a Sharpie mustache, a hoarding area with a trash-covered keg, weird furniture, hard liquor bottles and a depressing view of the parking lot complete the scene.

Volusion Development leadership is very much against change. Trying to upgrade a .Net version takes talking to 10 different people and waiting 6 weeks only to get shut down by a manager because he didn't think of it. You never know when you'll be let go. They talk about being a transparent company, but then make split second decisions to let go a group of people once things start going downhill. Talking to coworkers, they were always afraid of losing their job, and there was no warning. After being laid off they don't care about you. I was laid off with one week of severance. In the following weeks they invited the whole company to happy hour, threw multiple team events, and had a holiday party at the W. They have money, they just don't want to pay their developers. Leadership has no idea what development does. While working there we used multiple tools to track our progress, and having a CEO familiar with Github, he was more than capable of looking through our commits, however we had multiple meetings where leadership claimed there was no work being done because their work wasn't being done. Overall this job as a developer felt like half my time was development and the other half fighting a political battle with leadership.