Look elsewhere - Anonymous employee FairWarning Employee Review

1.0
Apr 12, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I was attracted to the building and the location. The job was OK but the product is an example of good intentions gone horribly wrong. The team I work on is one of the largest at the company. There are some great people with great talent. Cubicle life here is nothing like I imagined when I was in college. No excitement to be found. Friendships here are shallow. I don't get sick often but sometimes I need a "personal day". Those need to be planned weeks in advance not the night before. The recruiting team told me that they were a progressive company with a mom and pop culture. I had hoped to be able to work from home at least once in a while but that is not permitted here. There are a few exceptions though as they have remote developers all over the world but I was told not to pursue the whole work from home thing. The product idea is great but the development team is made up mostly from a bunch of old timers. That's not a bad thing but Cobol is dead I thought? They have a hard time moving past their ego and as a result the product is incredibly slow and cumbersome. They do have all you can drink coffee and thats really cool as I don't need to stop at Starbucks every morning.

Cons

There are some talented folks here at FairWarning but they won't be there much longer. They either come to realize that they are underpaid and unrecognized and leave, or they are fired for being too smart and letting everyone know that the product is broke, antiquated, and old. As others have said, read the reviews. Anything positive here is from a current employee who was manipulated into saying how great the company is. How else do you get 5 reviews in a month that are all five star with a staff of 100? I recently left FairWarning and am happy to report that the grass is greener elsewhere. Everyone is underpaid to such a point that they live paycheck to paycheck yet are forced to work long hours, weeknights, weekends, and not receive compensation for their efforts. The business development specialists (cold callers) and the Managed Privacy Services analysts (fake hackers) are the worst paid and we even have one person who lives in her car. Don't ask questions about why things don't work, you will be forced into the corner and never heard from again. They only want to hear how great the product is, how great it works, and how great the CEO is. Speak the truth and you will be silenced or fired. When I went through their hiring process everything they said was culture, culture, culture. The culture here is a joke and the nepotism will suck you dry. If you are even a remote friend of the CEO or his family we will hire you and pay you well.

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FairWarning Response
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It’s unfortunate you did not thrive here at FairWarning. We strive to make this a great workplace with an inclusive and progressive company culture. We’ve been voted a Tampa Bay Times Top Workplace for 6 years in a row and we are always trying to improve and maintain that status. We do have a policy that separates PTO and Vacation but we do this to encourage team members to take time off when they need it so they don’t have to use vacation time for personal reasons. We do ask for advanced notice if possible for vacation but we do understand that life happens which is why we grant PTO days off if you’re sick or have some sort of emergency. In terms of the product, we are always innovating and striving to make our product the best version possible. We have recently been named the #1 Patient Privacy Monitoring Solution according to Black Book (a 3rd party independent study, http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3772825.). We are extremely proud of this accomplishment and are going to continue to work to raise the bar in our industry. We benchmark team member salaries to make sure we are at or above the industry and area salary; we have a culture of hard work = reward and are consistently rewarding team members for their growth, accomplishments, and commitment to our mission. We’re extremely disturbed and upset to hear a team member is in hardship and potentially living in their car. We are CERTAIN if any of our managers were aware of this, they would have welcomed that team member into their home.

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