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2.1

28% would recommend to a friend

(5 total reviews)

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5 reviews
3.0
14 Feb 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I enjoyed the freedom that the company gave me as a software developer: I was given the desired outcome and I worked towards it

Cons

I was pushed to do less software work and more physical labour R&D work closer to the end of my employment there

3.0
22 Sept 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I was notified that someone posted a review and they thought it was me. I had no plans of writing a review for Drymax, but I'll add my thoughts to this page, as it seems to be a company tradition at this point. I started out my Drymax journey by being sent off on an ill-conceived trip to Colorado. No one knew what we were doing there, the project was a farce, and the clients quickly realized what I came to understand as well: this company was... different. All of the previous reviews are true to an extent. The business was poorly managed, the projects were hectic, and the overall vibe of the workplace was paradoxically too lax and too stringent with expectations. All of that is true, but there are other truths. The CEO is a visionary searching for the right people to enact it. Behind the veneer of bloviating platitudes and outright absurdity, there is something real that you will not find in most companies. The CEO will not always be honest--in fact, he might downright lie--but it's not a lie to him because he has 100% faith that what he says will come to pass. While that might seem like insanity to some people, I found that there was something to be admired about that kind of brash optimism. I worked at Drymax for two years and was one of the longest-tenured employees. I would not have stuck around for that long if I did not think there was something worth trying for. The technology is real, but it needs a lot of work. The goals are poorly defined and unobtainable, but you are still offered a chance. The pay is terrible and the benefits are null, but if you have the right mindset and grit, you will be able to chart a path for yourself. At its worst, Drymax Solutions is one man's vanity project. At its best, Drymax Solutions is a collaborative journey into the unknown. You will be mopping floors one day, and pitching tech to executives of fortune 100 companies the next. You will be chiseling fermented soybeans out of a hopper one week, and traveling across the country with a rented trailer full of million dollar tech the following Monday. You will drink beer and smoke cigars in the middle of the night while you curse and sweat your way through unclogging an auger full of rotten corn. You will cough your lungs out from the dust exposure, burn yourself with high-voltage RF arcing, and violate ten OSHA regulations a day. You will leave with scars, and stories. So unlike the other reviews, I will give this company a positive rating. In many ways, Drymax Solutions is a microcosm of an America that has faded in the wake of corporate nihilism and the oppressive polish of political correctness. It is rough, it ambiguously legal, it is dirty, grimy, and quite literally held together with duct tape. The CEO is undoubtedly delusional, the workers are cynical, and the atmosphere is full of profanity, rot and dead mice. But it is what you make of it. Ultimately, this company and its success rests on you. And maybe, if the heavens align themselves and the cosmos orient into perfect synchrony, you will get really f***ing rich, and then the CEO isn't delusional. Then he was a genius visionary the whole time, thanks to you. You might even get your own Ted Talk. And that is the American dream.

Cons

The pay is awful, but stick around, and you'll get it up fast enough.

1.0
14 Sept 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

No need for an engineering degree because the "CEO" has a marketing degree but could have "gotten a full scholarship for engineering" if he wanted to. Comradery over hating your boss and constantly making fun of how this was never going to work but doing it anyways. If your a desperate college grad it's experience that you can put on a resume, don't expect to learn much unless you take the initiative.

Cons

Within the first month I was searching for another job. Forced to drive to Colorado and set up a prototype that we had just managed to get working the week before made from plywood and metal plates. Dangerous environment working next to RF with no safety equipment, high energy and open dryers. Then having to lie to customers when the CEO overpromised what we could deliver but the check had already been cashed. A Ponzi scheme in the simplest form. After Colorado it was a revolving door of "over 50 products" that all had varying chemical make up and drying behavior. This was only done to collect the small fee we charged to "analyze" the material. But don't expect to spend your time figuring out how to dry products. Instead spend your time loading, unloading, and driving the tons of corn and soybeans to the poorly situated facility and loading the material into supersacks to rot and spray up huge amounts of dust. The pay was barely enough to live off of and the promises of "bonuses and shares of the company" were always delayed for one reason or another. He will hire you as an "intern" to pay you the least amount possible then never bring you on full time. Expects you to do all the work and then take the credit with no compensation. I still remember when I got my offer for my next job, best day there.

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