Pros
In the recent company picnic, they brought out Hollywood celerities to entertain us.
Cons
I have been in the industry for 17 years and havent seen a company as nepotist as Quixey. Its a joyride. They are spending crazy on expensive picnics, almost twice a month off-sites in expensive hotels, fancy conference rooms, onsite gym, yoga, the list is endless. This isnt even attracting any top talent. The best we have been able to recruit so far is the Web 1.0 Yahoo/eBay crowd. Hence, a data driven culture is completely absent. The roster is full of 'operations' people outside of product and engineering disciplines. We have an "events coordinator", along with his own personal assistant !?! There are 4 admins for the execs. The total search engineering team is a small fraction of the company. This, in a search company that publicly boasts 200 people. On the other hand, the product simply does not exist. Have you ever heard of our app called Quixey???? The founders created the company in 2009. Its been 6 years and even today the number of organic users are less than the number of employees in the company. They have inserted their best friends into each team and the head of each team makes sure to stay on good terms with that guy/gal who is reporting to them. The same group of friends band together in and outside of work. The CEO rented a Caribbean island for Christmas and flew them out on vacation. Some of those dropouts have messed up major deals with high profile device manufacturers and have now gotten promoted. There is simply no pressure or stress to deliver. We have so many team lunches and events, I never feel tired in the evening due to work but because of all the physical activities we do.
