5.0
100% would recommend to a friend
Vaughn Peterson
Not enough data to show CEO approval
100% positive business outlook
Pros
Best team to work with! Lots of flexibility to take ownership of your role.
Cons
Can't really think of any...
Pros
In short: Cambeo sells and delivers Human Capital. Our appended definition of Human Capital included humane, sustainable employee cultural development. Individual career path and achievement was also emphasized, which effectively wrote your resume for you and guided you and your employer to put you in the right seat on the right bus at the right time. Connecting humans amongst the client's company strata was also the goal. Our schtick was rooted in well-researched competencies. After I left, a task-based feedback and reporting mobile app was added even though it ran against our take on Human Capital by some interpretations, yet dovetailed well with the rest of the app nonetheless. There was no difference in what we sold and Cambeo's company culture itself. I even asked amongst all my contacts if they could refer us clients or contacts in retail. Not in short: Hypothetically, Cambeo is a subscription-based, live-human support and consulting business (no automated answering, ever). It is also a philosophy and system coupled with an enterprise web application, effectively automating the most useful methods of consulting. This desktop app and the subsequent task-based mobile supplementary app has a suite of tools to quickly make and deploy several types of internal, client, and secret shopper feedback loops. Many correlations are produced from the continual stream of results. Amongst 20 or so of these feedback tools, three examples are, what I'd describe as, a painpoint-value correlation feedback loop, a perceived value-profit correlation feedback loop, and both a top-down and a bottom-up training-performance correlation feedback loop. It bridged the typical gap in retail involving corporate, management, employee, and customer / client groups. In practice, however, and despite the seemingly narrow retail-geared design of Cambeo, there are a great diversity of clients that successfully apply its principles in terms of both the retail genre and also the size of business we served. These include everything from dental offices, banks, and auto dealerships to a national clothing franchise (who was so impressed, he paid for all his franchisees to have it for free), a local bookstore chain, a high-end furniture chain, and a well-known US-based international restaurant chain. All had clear, demonstrable profit gain from using Cambeo. I'm an idea guy, and the vision of Cambeo and its repeated fulfillment made working there, well, fulfilling. As a developer, I was given the luxury of choosing which aspects of the Cambeo app to enhance, even if a client had not requested it explicitly. Not only was this empowering because it allowed me to invest directly into the app my personalized version of the company's vision, and not only was I extremely grateful for this, but every single employee I worked with was thrilled and every client that dived in head first to fully utilize the app profited immeasurably from this approach. If you end up working here in any role, you will immediately be caught up in the synergistic coolness the CEO seems to magically imbue in his employees. No regrets working here. Good compensation post-funding. Also due said structure, career opportunities and investing opportunities abound if you stay with them. Free, gourmet daily lunch and snacks, mandated by the investor, but paid for by Cambeo.
Cons
In brief: no cons. For the last 2 of the 3 years I worked there, the overseas lead developer, who didn't write the app originally, , obdurantly guarded his coding skills and mentorship potential (he was the only possible mentor at the time) like the "hired gun" he was, (CEO's words), that is, like a hired gun guards her list of clients and marks, and he otherwise 'killed' it by delivering what was requested on time every time, like in John Cusack in Gross Point Blank. Perhaps this was philosophical and / or because he worked for a local company that outsources expert, high performance software developers and felt it only ethical to hold his cards close to his chest. The CEO also acknowledged and vindicated this concern by remarking that this situation "wouldn't be permanent", though I don't know about the fruition of this. Despited my contrived counterarguments here, all employees that worked with him, even the original genius developer who had been rehired once we received investor cash, for the last 2 months of my employment, frequently expressed frustration because of other peculiarities and idiosyncratic, almost stylistic / convention-based requirements this certifiable genius had. So for me, it was extremely frustrating because I already have a massive inferiority complex and frequently ended days feeling like I didn't have anything significant to contribute to not only software, but life. Perhaps if I had not been an isolated, spoiled and thus wooden, introverted, neurodiverse, impractical dreamer in most of my formative and adult years, and had thus obtained better people skills, especially those that cut across culture and language barriers, none of this would have been an issue. Also, if my confidence wasn't ravaged by other more recent unmentionable personal struggles, I could have had thicker skin. I really think it wasn't truly me or him, and for sure not Cambeo. World-colliding happens. No benefits, even post-funding, due to unique investor company structure.
Pros
- Have a direct impact on projects without bureaucratic nonsense. - Working with good professional people. NOT a "hey bro" startup vibe. - Changing the way people in retail view their jobs
Cons
- Smaller teams with a lot of work to do - Working out of shared space with other companies
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