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4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

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Jack Little

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87% positive business outlook

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3.0
Oct 9, 2013
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Pros

-Consistently a leader in its class -Financially healthy -Great work/life balance -Fun parties -Young company

Cons

-Atrocious pay compared to regional market -Zero and I mean zero transparency -If you're not an engineer or developer, you're a commodity -Little to no advancement potential (salary or responsibility) for "S level" (service) positions - Revenue Accounting and Controls, Customer Service, Sales Support (Account Management) -Micromanagement in the extreme (President/CEO approving remote work requests and pricing discounts) -Account Management is sales support, plain and simple. -Customer Service is traditional CS, and Revenue Accounting and Controls is simply a glorified data entry and AR collections position. If you have a finance degree, and accounting degree, or an MBA you should *absolutely* not be spending your time in such a position. The people are great but you are wasting your time and valuable years of your early professional career. I understand people joining between 2007 and 2011 due to the economy but at this point, you're hurting your career advancement and severely handicapping your career advancement potential.

2.0
Sep 16, 2013
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Pros

Good pay, private company with quarterly bonuses based on revenue and performance. Delivery of software products for engineering and science applications. Strong penetration in the market and in University curriculum.

Cons

Completely development centric. No real authority as a Manager, but for managing individual contributors. Company focus on Quality, but this does not translate to better quality. Some senior managers are "untouchable" so things don't necessarily improve. Performance ratings not really set by managers; VPs can override. Managers have little say. Hard to get things done as a manager due to lots of politics. Many quality initiatives, but few have significant impact due to lack of adoption by teams that choose not to adopt quality initiatives. Flat QA organization: younger managers with 5 years of experience are at the same job level as those with 25+ years.

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