Adaptive Road Reviews

Working at Adaptive Road, every employee works remotely. While I thought this would be a major challenge, the communication is still better than at any other place I've worked in a traditional office environment. The structure of the organization is something called Holacracy, which eschews typical hierarchical management structure in favor of 'circles' (departments) and 'roles' (job descriptions). This takes some getting used to, but it is very powerful and very freeing. It focuses on the projects that are underway, the work that needs to be done, and it presupposes that employees are responsible enough to get their work done. No micro-managing here. The company offers an ESOP to all employees once they are eligible (have to work there for a certain amount of time first), which is a nice alternative to a traditional 401K or IRA. You can set one of those up too, if you want. As such, most employees are also employee-owners, which really helps to ensure that those who stick around really care about seeing the business succeed, and don't merely work the bare minimum to collect a paycheck. As it is a small team, the workload can vary, which means you may also be asked to help out in areas other than what you were hired to do, if they fit your talents and strengths. For someone who is interested in learning a lot in a variety of different disciplines, this is awesome. There are no set hours, and the compensation incentives are structured such that if you want to do more work, you have the opportunity to make more. The company (and its parent company) are really good at hiring very smart, driven, passionate people. You aren't likely to find another group of coworkers who are as intelligent and as good at what they do. Very little travel is involved (for consultants at least), but some is.