Pariveda reviews

You won't always be staffed on a glamorous project; someone has to write the boring code too. It's possible to get pigeon-holed as the person who knows a lot about a particular technology and thus gets staffed on those projects, so you need to make sure that you are exposed to new and different things if you aren't getting it at work.

The company kind of uses false advertising. During the interview process you see the downtown office, get to visit the good clients, and upper management talks about how Pariveda only does the cool and interesting work. The company prides itself on being super transparent with a unique feedback and promotion system. All of this is great, but far from the truth. They show you how awesome it is downtown -- week guess what, only upper management and corporate services actually work there. They get free food, drinks, coffee, beer, etc. while you are billable at the client sitting in a 5x7 foot closet with 7 other people. You don't hear about the bad clients, where 60-hour work weeks are all too familiar. All for usually crappy work; however, management will try to convince you that the work is super interesting and sugar coat the whole thing instead of being transparent and real. And you want to know what no one will tell you this? Because if they do, it'll somehow show up in their review as a Career Development Plan (CDP) item and prevent then from being promoted. That's what honesty will get you.