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Too Many Double Standards - Software Engineer Practice Velocity Employee Review

1.0
May 12, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Are you are a family member of the CEO/Owner and/or are you a High School chum of the CEO/Owner's wife with NO experience and NO formal college education? If you answer yes to this question, you will go far at Practice Velocity. Do you enjoy working and “belonging” to a cult-like atmosphere where any question raised about the financials or the well being of the company are met with resounding hostility and often times the employee is swiftly excused from employment? Practice Velocity is the place for you. Can you handle “Leadership from the Heart/Heart of a Leader” training with Practice Velocity's main charlatan—“The Positive Energy Guy” ? It is a mandatory two day course to indoctrinate new employees into Practice Velocity's brand of antagonistic thought processes. Those who think for themselves, refuse to take the class, or mock the class are soon terminated.

Cons

Management and several of the lower IQ minions are in tightly-knitted cliques: They will use you for their own gain and terminate you when you stand up to them. Practice Velocity is a company that promotes infidelity. It seems that people are encouraged to “cheat”--especially at sanctioned events (e.g. UCAOA). All employees were offered “FREE” coffee until they stopped suddenly and employees had to pay for their new coffee via a hired Barista. Funny thing is that the Barista was shut down by the Health Department less than a week into the program. To prove his “manufactured” power, the CEO/Owner will often demand that employees get up to dance, especially when there are potential clients visiting the Practice Velocity Compound. Any resistance to dancing is met with swift ostracism followed by termination.

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Practice Velocity Response
11y
Thanks for your input. We are sorry that you do fell like you fit at PV. We can assure you that the vast majority of employees have stated on our anonymous surveys that they are happy here. As far as hiring family members, except for the CEO's wife (who is eminently qualified for her position and has an earned college degree), there are no family members in any management or leadership positions. As for high school friends of his wife, there are none in executive leadership and only one in any leadership role. Although that leader does not have a college degree, he seems eminently qualified, since he previously held the same leadership position at another software company. The company supports marital fidelity and offers an employee assistance program for staff undergoing marital distress. Although we do not police our staff, we are not aware of (nor would we ever encourage) any infidelity at conferences. You are correct that Practice Velocity is one of the only companies in the area to offer highly-subsidised, barista-made coffee in the workplace. Although the coffee bar was closed at the health department's request for a little over a week to install a larger water heater to bring up to code, the coffee bar is appreciated by the staff and hardly seems to be a negative. As for the "main charlatan" Brandon Johnson, he does coordinate training for all staff. He is co-author of MIPA's Business Book of the Year, Hospitality from the Heart and was recently named a Top 30 Global Guru for the Hospitality Industry. As for the line dancing, participation is completely optional. If you were still working at PV, you would realize this, as software developers rarely participate and they suffer absolutely no repercussions. As for "incompetent managers" who "wander around" and "aimlessly chat", that seems amazing for one of the fastest-growing companies in the Rock Valley region, an INC 500/5000 company for three straight years, a Top 50 Medical Economics EMR company, and the company with the #1 EMR software for urgent care in every survey ever taken. We do wish you the best in your new job. If you really are a current employee and do wish to leave PV, please see HR within the next 2 weeks and they will arrange for you to sign some paperwork, that will enable you to receive a severance package with 4 weeks of pay.

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5.0
Jan 10, 2018
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Pros

Great work environment, wonderful co-workers, company really cares for their employees.

Cons

As long as you work hard and work well in a group setting you will love it here!

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Practice Velocity Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide some feedback. We're so glad that you enjoyed your time working with the team at Practice Velocity!
5.0
Nov 26, 2014
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Pros

The company is not just about making money. They truly care about their employees and about the clinics that they provide software and billing services to everyday. They invested their profits into providing the best insurance benefits they can afford to give their employee, quarterly bonuses, a wonderful new building that is state of the art; monthly (lunch included) town hall meetings to keep everyone informed of what is going on with the company, celebration trip for the entire company to the Wisconsin Dells for the weekend, paintball and bowling parties, innovation development week, and they continue to look for ways to make our lives easier. They even offer an onsite concierge to provide additional services to make employees' work lives more enjoyable (onsite messages, car repair services, eyebrow waxing, discounts on everything from hair cuts to shoes, etc.) In return, they expect their employees to be on time, be prepared, and to work hard. I feel that is a very fair expectation.

Cons

I enjoy working so much I have a hard time going home at the end of the day. Yes I know that sounds crazy but It is ridiculously true. My family wishes I would leave a little earlier each day and I commit to do so, but then I get wrapped up in work and just don’t seem to leave on time.

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Practice Velocity Response
11y
Wow! What a great endorsement! Those who fit in at PV seem to really love it.
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