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Rating Score3.4 33 reviews
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  • 4 30%
  • 3 39%
  • 2 12%
  • 1 3%

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  • 3.3 Career Growth
  • 4.4 Work - Life Balance
  • 2.5 Compensation / Benefits
  • 3.5 Company Culture
  • 2.9 Management
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“Frustrating leadership”

Verified User Current Employee · j***** · Software Engineer - Apr 12, 2022

Pros+ When in-person, culture is collaborative and fun. In-office perks like snacks and movie nights
+ Coworkers are brilliant
+ Freedom (to an extent) to choose an interesting project
+ People are rarely fired, instead management tries to find a better fit for individuals if performance is poor (on the flip side, it also means that you often have someone dragging your team progress down)

Cons+ Management is out of touch with employees. They claim to be transparent, but are very aloof and secretive, and either don’t know or don’t care about mounting employee frustration.
+ Management are mostly engineers who got promoted to management. As such, they don’t have the best management skills, and there aren’t solid processes/prioritization. Related to all management being engineers- they value technical skills above all else, so people in project management, language specialists, etc are not valued. Because those positions aren’t valued, we don’t hire for them, and so there end up being too few people trying to manage the work of too many, all while engineers waste time on projects that aren’t very useful to the company because there is no real management/guidance.
+ Priorities simply don’t exist. Every client and every project is “high priority.” Staff is stretched thin trying to meet unrealistic deadlines for too many projects. Because of this, the culture is becoming less and less collaborative, since people have too many tasks to help others.
+ Benefits are subpar - no 401k matching, no bonuses, salaries are not competitive with similar tech companies. We used to have holiday and summer parties, but management has taken advantage of covid to take those away without a replacement. There’s little acknowledgement of the hours and effort that people put into the company-most people get similar raises regardless of whether they go above and beyond or whether they coast.

Rating Score3.0
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2Management

“Average”

Verified User Current Employee · y*** · Program Manager - Apr 16, 2022

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Rating Score4.0
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“Great team”

Verified User Current Employee · s***** · Software Engineer - Mar 20, 2022

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Rating Score3.0
3Career Growth
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“Good WLB for most | mostly great colleagues | low pay | tired, uninspired, stretched thin”

Verified User Current Employee · y******** · Software Engineer I - Feb 21, 2022

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Rating Score5.0
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“Good people, good WLB”

Verified User Current Employee · X***** · Software Engineer - Feb 12, 2022

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“Under paid. Under worked. High turnover. Nice work/life balance.”

Verified User Former Employee · o***** · Talent Acquisition - Jan 28, 2022

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“Great teams, but understaffed and overworked”

Verified User Current Employee · v***** · Project Manager - Jan 8, 2022

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Rating Score3.0
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“Great coworkers”

Verified User Current Employee · j***** · Engineer - Dec 3, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
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“Great technology, weak productization and monetization ”

Verified User Current Employee · a***** · Business Development - Oct 7, 2021

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Rating Score5.0
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“Great colleagues, great WLB, great tech, a bit of chaos”

Verified User Current Employee · A***** · Senior Engineer - Oct 1, 2021

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“Good work life balance and culture”

Verified User Current Employee · i***** · Machine Learning Engineer - Sep 7, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Chill company, everyone is friendly, company as a whole feels a bit rudderless despite it being over a decade old.”

Verified User Current Employee · L********* · Engineer - Aug 28, 2021

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“Not great for career growth”

Verified User Current Employee · I***** · Senior Software Engineer - Jul 31, 2021

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“Good life balance, low TC”

Verified User Former Employee · r***** · QA Engineer - Jun 27, 2021

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“Small team, big ambitions”

Verified User Current Employee · F***** · Software Engineer - Jun 3, 2021

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“Small company growing too fast”

Verified User Current Employee · k*** · Software Engineer - May 11, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
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“Good peers terrible Management”

Verified User Current Employee · X*** · Data Quality Analyst - May 7, 2021

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“Good People”

Verified User Current Employee · S***** · Engineer - May 3, 2021

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“It’s just not good ”

Verified User Current Employee · x***** · Engineer I - May 1, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Low TC, good growth opportunities, okayish management”

Verified User Current Employee · L***** · Software Engineer - Apr 30, 2021

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“Thankless Labor ”

Verified User Current Employee · s***** · Software Back End Engineer - Apr 29, 2021

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“Future is concerned ”

Verified User Current Employee · F***** · Product Developer - Apr 29, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Great WLB, overworked management, low comp”

Verified User Current Employee · Q***** · Engineer - Apr 26, 2021

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“Interesting projects”

Verified User Current Employee · e********* · Machine Learning Engineer - Apr 21, 2021

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“Low TC, bad executive management, non existent culture”

Verified User Current Employee · S***** · Software Engineer - Apr 19, 2021

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Rating Score5.0
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“Great colleagues, interesting projects”

Verified User Current Employee · Y***** · Senior Software Engineer - Apr 16, 2021

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Rating Score3.0
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“Decent work life balance but future seems uncertain ”

Verified User Current Employee · s********* · Mobile Engineer - Apr 14, 2021

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Rating Score4.0
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“Great work life balance, awesome culture. ”

Verified User Current Employee · n********* · Software Engineer - Apr 12, 2021

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“Great WLB and people”

Verified User Current Employee · l******** · Software Engineer - Apr 3, 2021

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“Overall collaborative work environment and get to work on great project, but middle management aren’t that great ”

Verified User Current Employee · s***** · Project Manager - Apr 1, 2021

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