Volusion reviews

Volusion did not like to be transparent with any of its undertakings, something I think should be a top priority especially when you're battling a fleeting corporate culture due to Volusion's separate office locations. The pay rate wasn't competitive, the office politics were apparent, and the leadership never seemed to be able to keep morale up. Overall, it felt like everyone was burnt out, and that's saying a lot considering how Volusion knows how to hire A-team players.

Where to begin. At the risk of beating a horse that's already thoroughly stomped by other reviewers... Upper management. I've never seen so much backstabbing, idea theft, sniping, and disrepectful behavior at a company. I once witnessed the director of product management berating a product manager and asking him repeatedly "are you completely stupid? are you? are you stupid?" Never be naive enough to think your ideas matter. Unless you're in a certain clique, much like high school, the best and most useful ideas are dismissed out of hand. Except when they're stolen and used by a director or VP level to please the CEO. Departments have openly adversarial relationships, especially between "Product" and IT. Lots of blame and finger pointing, lots of excuse making. When I left the company, there was effectively an IT shadow organization under Product trying to work around IT. Weekend and overnight deployments galore. Building a new "enterprise" ecommerce platform that is SOA but undeployable without manual oversight and vast service dependencies speaks volumes about the "genius" crew - the ones who make decisions and get lots of hero-worship service. All in all, this place is like an episode of Silicon Valley. Hooli, without the talent or success. Don't waste your time.