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.
