Urban Science reviews

3.7

72% would recommend to a friend

(257 total reviews)
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Jim Anderson

66% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Urban Science has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 257 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Urban Science 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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257 reviews
3.0
Jan 7, 2016

Great people, clunky company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people at Urban Science are fantastic - smart, sensitive, ambitious, well-rounded. Management does truly care about your well-being and career, even when they can't necessarily be responsive to your concerns. The core problems being solved are stimulating, even when the proposed solutions are not.

Cons

The company as a whole is a dinosaur. Old-fashioned development cycles, bureaucracy and unnecessary turf wars, generally very little innovation. The technology stack is painfully out of date and minimally functional.

1.0
Dec 15, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers are generally kind... not much else.

Cons

Management - particularly the women - feels threatened by any young workers with potential. They will get rid of you if you are free thinking and motivated to succeed. The men seem generally so wrapped up in how much money they are making that they don't have time to save the good workers.

1.0
Aug 5, 2014

Inefficient software company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

A good place for unmotivated people. Put in 8 hours and leave. For people who don't care about improving marketable skills and want to be lifers then this is a great place.

Cons

If you are interesting in software development and not in Detroit, then you are out of luck. Satellite offices only gives you busy work while Detroit gets majority of new and core development. Local offices rarely have any true experts to learn from. The experts that were here left or is uninteresting in helping others. Best phrase that describe this place is "The Blind leading the Blind". Rarely do you find someone that knows more than the basics of any technology in the office. Leadership is only interesting in hiring cheap new grads instead of experts. Inefficient processes, lazy managers, and no one wants to take ownership of projects during the SDLC. Only when a project succeeds do people raise their hands for project ownership. Constantly throwing people under the bus whenever a project is late or over budget. Only reason why the company has survived so long is because there were only one other competitor in the market. New competitors are showing up now and they are winning over clients easily. Company is barely profitable due to inefficient processes. Spending a 1 hour team meeting to watch one person manually enter task hours in MS Project is not cost effective.

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