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Rhythm Engineering reviews

2.8

40% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)
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Reggie Chandra

41% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Rhythm Engineering has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Rhythm Engineering employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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112 reviews
1.0
Mar 22, 2017

Extremely disappointing place to work!!

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Pros

The product Rhythm Engineering provides is truly revolutionary and the staff are some of the smartest and most dedicated I've met.

Cons

Starting at the top, the CEO is a true and complete Narcissist. He fancies himself a visionary genius that is smarter than everyone else in the room, while he single handedly runs the company into the ground with ridiculous expenditures of company funds on non-business related projects, start up companies, consultants, personal investments that consume more financial resources than they return, damaging emails sent to the entire client base and THEN blaming Sales, Finance and anyone else he can point a finger at when sales drop off and cash is tight. And he hires a COO that has about as much warmth, compassion and empathy for the staff as a python to do his bidding and dirty work. The continual turnover rate in that place is crazy, They just reduced their workforce by 20%, 3rd layoff in less than a year's time. The CEO is totally consumed with image, bragging that his company is one of the best places to work and yet people continually fear for their jobs. People are hired and fired with no rhyme or reason. There doesn't seem to be much sound basis for the decisions being made as they are in constant reaction to decisions being made by the CEO, who is a guru of all the books he claims to read, yet master of none.

1.0
Oct 11, 2017

Review From Actual Employee/Hostage

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very Few Pros, unless PTSD is an asset. Product is disruptive, but CEO/Owner doesn't understand market or competing technologies in the market. Great co-workers/hostages, yet we all feel like we have Stockholm Syndrome....

Cons

-The CEO/Owner: let's see, he thinks he's a genius, and of course, anyone who thinks they are a genius, usually are not. He doesn't understand basic business concepts such as a sustainable pricing model, collaboration with employees/partners, market research, and understanding the value of employees. Oh yeah, he's also an egomaniac. Not a good mix. He is the sole reason Rhythm Engineering is in its current state of disrepair. Please don't believe the reviews here about how great a place it is to work. He's got dozens of on-line identities to keep offering them up. The market is not billions, and what the hell does "FIT IT" mean? There is nothing, and I mean, absolutely nothing to scale. It's one product to sell. Not the 9 you claimed in a video a year ago. One single product that is getting marginalized daily in the marketplace by competitors and being replicated by another firm which the CEO/Owner won't enforce/protect his patent(s). This company's senior management was a revolving door. After the last RIF, only left with a handful of brave souls willing to deal with the owner. I've lost count of the great employees who have left. Product development is down to one or two employees state-side and the Bulgaria thing is rumored to be a front for his soon-to-be bachelor ways i.e. a little something on the side. The dysfunction in this place is breath-taking. The amount of BS coming from the CEO/Owner is endless. Stating profitability after 1.5 years is lipstick on a pig. Only because you shut down all other affiliated companies that never made a profit. Here's a tip for the CEO/Owner, you don't know the first thing about marketing, project management software, empowering others, etc. It was a personal circle-jerk for you to have all these companies with your name attached, calling yourself "Chief Vision Officer" and other BS. Telling customers in a company-wide email that you don't know what you're doing and didn't learn how to run a business in engineering school won't create more customers. It, in fact, led to a large number of potential customers vowing to never want to speak with anyone from Rhythm Engineering. Employees and customers want stability, continuity and integrity. These terms are antithetical to Reggie Chandra.

1.0
Feb 21, 2014

A toxic culture of distrust and firings

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Pros

Random incentives like all-company trips to the Bahamas (followed by mass layoffs usually)

Cons

If you look on LinkedIn, you'll find about 30 people who have been involuntarily terminated from Rhythm Engineering during 2010-2013 or left on their own accord, out of a staff of 50. The technology is good but the CEO is an egomaniac who does not trust others and knows nothing about leadership or running a company. The management team has no real authority or influence. If you don't care about job security, raises or respect, this is a good place to work.

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