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CEO mismanaged company - Anonymous employee Audience Employee Review

2.0
21 July 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good people. Great market to be in; voice interaction and communication is an industry experiencing accelerated growth.

Cons

Company salaries are not competitive to hire the best people/engineers in the industry. Benefits do not include 401k matching. Too many meetings with little agreement on strategy. Only real product is close talk noise suppression (which is about the same from 4 years ago.)

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Pros

Vast on-job learning opportunities, incredibly strong and knowledgeable algo group

Cons

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1.0
27 Nov 2013
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Pros

If you enjoy audio, you may find the work to be interesting.

Cons

Below senior management, managers love to micromanage. Employees can be sent off at a moments notice to the far reaches of the world. Too much time spent in meetings rather than getting any real work done. The more interesting work is given to contractors or shipped overseas. Benefits are poor. Subpar 401k choices (high fees) and no company match. Very disorganized. Priorities are constantly changing. I have no idea how this company competes with other companies in the bay area for employees. There are little, if any, perks and I have yet to see the company do anything that I would consider to be fun. It is just work, work, work.

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