Volusion reviews

I’ve been at Volusion for a few years. I’ve also worked for 5 other tech companies in my career so I think I’ve seen my fair share of Engineering best practices and poor practices. To be honest… Volusion had been on the poor practices side for a while. It wasn’t horrible… but it was far from great and I’ve stayed because the compensation is surprisingly above average. Like it’s pretty good. The tech is changing though and that’s actually why I’m writing this. I don’t know what exactly happened. I think it was a couple things. It seems like all of a sudden the company kind of woke up and had this realization that things need to change, tech needed to be updated, etc. It was a rejuvenated push to better the department. There was also leadership overhaul about a year and a half ago. We made a push to consolidate on one cloud, GCP, and we took a bunch of old small, distributed repos that were living in lambdas with a bunch of boilerplate in each one, all talking to the same database (like a poor attempt at micro services) and put them in a single express app that’s now dockerized and running in a kubernetes cluster. We’re fixing a poor monitoring “solution” and we’re in the process of moving an old angular 1.5 front-end to React. We’ve also recently integrated GraphQL endpoints. I’m honestly pretty impressed with the progress that’s been made here.

I loved working at Volusion! This was my first job out of college. I was referred to the company by the VP of IT Operations at that time. I was there for roughly a year-and-a-half in the sales department as an Ecommerce Advisor. The expectations were high in terms of metrics and quotas, but any sales role is that way. And your paycheck (commissions) is directly tied to your efforts, so I worked hard every day and saw much success in the role, which, consequently led to being offered other opportunities to further along the sales department in terms of launching new product offerings, testing out new CRMs, etc. If you have a positive attitude and are willing to put in the effort required, you will do well here. The people and company culture were great. A lot of my friends at work were also my friends outside of work too. And we still keep in touch to this day. My sales manager was excellent, and I always felt supported by him.