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4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

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87% positive business outlook

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5.0
Sep 4, 2013
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Pros

Great pay for the Boston area. Great software processes that lends itself to very high quality. Amazing in-house build system that automatically builds your code across many different platforms. Outstanding release management system and team. Excellent automated test framework that distributes testing across the company servers. Super-star engineers throughout the company. Great culture. Good chance of getting your own office. Insanely amazing benefits, including 100% up to 6% 401k match! Great bonus program. Good vacations.

Cons

Private company, so no stocks. Health insurance co-pay could be lower. Extremely limited tele-commuting policy. Can feel bureaucratic at times. Traditionally hired only engineers and only recently started hiring computer science grads, which means that some of the older code is not coded up as well as it could have.

3.0
Sep 2, 2013
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Pros

Peaceful Area and friendly environs. Smart people who really know their stuff. Free cookies on Friday and free breakfast on Wednesday.

Cons

Managers focus way too much on the so-called company culture and the MW way of doing things. What really matters is not given enough importance. Low salary.

1.0
Aug 26, 2013

Low pay, bad management

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Pros

You usually get a nice office

Cons

The pay is 30% to 40% lower than comparable positions at similarly sized software companies. The company uses a fairly arbitrary stack ranking policy so the managers are a bunch of butt-covering mediocrities who couldn't use a piece of software if their lives depended on it, never mind design and code up a piece of software.

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