Volusion Senior Software Developer reviews

Start-up, Work friendly, good, balanced, start up, flexible

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.