Skycatch reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(49 total reviews)

Christian Sanz

72% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Skycatch has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 49 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Skycatch employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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49 reviews
1.0
Jan 2, 2016

Upper Management Carries Unrealistic Development Expectations

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Pros

Many of the other engineers are talented, driven, and pleasant individuals. Some of the mid-level management understand that expectations from upper management are unrealistic, and are willing to push back on your behalf. Competitive salary, but slightly below average benefits.

Cons

Upper management is unwilling to commit the time or resources into finishing a project. New features are promised to prospective clients while engineering teams are still rushing to complete the scaffold of a previously promised feature. At best, new features can be demoed to clients in highly controlled and meticulously scripted settings. At worst, they are faked into videos and then presented anyways. Culture is very PC, and expect management to force you to sit through motivational company-wide "chats".

1.0
Dec 9, 2015
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Pros

Skycatch has some really hard working employees who put their heart and soul into their job.

Cons

It's a shame that that development is misguided by a lack of technical awareness in terms of tools and advancements made in the space and through slave driving by upper management. Most of the time is spent fixing issues that should not persist upto the 11th hour before client demos. The management makes up imaginary deadlines to showcase new products and features prematurely to retain "company image and trust". The engineers are forced to execute spit and shine solutions due to being over-driven with little to no resources spent in R&D or exploration to gain footing and better IP. Managers just implicitly expect people to work through the night and weekends so that they can have a potato to run with at a demo. When the people who have worked overtime ask for a break or adjustments to their benefits, they are asked to just brush it off and realise they are working at a "challenging startup". It feels incredibly dishonest that most of the technological features showcased in the promo videos does not exit, and with the current attitude of the senior employees, puts Skycatch light years away from achieving them. Culture wise, there is great emphasis on being PC and constantly regimenting how things should appear rather than spending that energy towards a better product and IP that would stand on its own merit.

1.0
Nov 24, 2015

Not what it seems

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Pros

Drones are really interesting. Most people here are nice and want to succeed.

Cons

Terrible leadership and a huge problem with keeping senior talent. Really good people keep leaving and most employees are unhappy, but won't leave because they feel so invested. As one reviewer stated, it's definitely image over substance. Tons of power points and videos, but no real product that's selling.

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