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Telmate reviews

2.6

42% would recommend to a friend

(67 total reviews)

Richard Torgersrud

48% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Telmate has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 67 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Telmate employee rating is 32% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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67 reviews
1.0
Feb 1, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Technology stack is organically derived from engineers that work for the company.

Cons

Outside the box thinking is basically forbidden. There are a few designated thinkers in the organization whose wisdom is to go unchallenged.

1.0
Jul 5, 2016

Toxic environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are no pros that are great enough to outweigh the insane list of cons.

Cons

junior members who have been here a long time and corrupt leadership have the most power. if you are caught somewhere in between, you will be manipulated out of the equation. NEPOTISM is rampant and has caused a very toxic environment of management that says one thing only to do another and pit employees against each other. managers will talk trash about peers and direct reports...and for what? nothing productive is achieved. it only makes teams unstable, brings down morale, and lowers trust.

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Telmate Response
10y
I must apologize for the negative experience that you are having at Telmate. I would love the opportunity to work with you on addressing your concerns and putting into place the changes required to improve your experience. Our company has a lot of room for improvement, but I need help in order to make it better. It will take a team of committed employees and leaders to make the appropriate changes. You have my commitment that I am and will do whatever is needed to make this company successful. If you have specific suggestions please let me know so that I can work toward implementing them. I do not condone negativity and "trash talking." I will make sure to address it when I see it happening and work towards hiring future people that do not engage in that behavior.
1.0
Jul 1, 2016

BIG mistake working for this company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

convenient location, very central and near everything

Cons

This company is a joke. Leaders here wing it and take it one day at time when they should be looking at the big picture and guiding our roadmap. Coming here felt like going to a playground where everyone was running free and not being productive, & making inappropriate comments (sexual/derogatory). Some of the managers think that being productive just means doing stuff, but we all know that isn't true. Most of them lack the skills and experience to lead their department. They think that just because they have been working for 20+ years that means they can run a department--FALSE! -Analytics team hides and manipulates their numbers. -Product team is a mess and isnt prioritizing efficiently. -Marketing has no clue what they are doing and are in their own world of promoting stuff we didn't have -- they proudly called themselves "smoke and mirrors" -- I think that speaks for itself, it's not very positive. -Customer service team is a joke. We get so much hate from customers and we don't care, nothing happens. I don't even understand how we are still in business. -HR is OK, I never really had any issues or negative experiences with them. -selling products we don't have -not addressing customer needs honestly -emotional leaders who let their egos run the show because they don't have what it takes to own up to the fact they are clueless and shouldn't even be in their role

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