A "software company" struggling to grow effectively - Senior Software Developer III Bandwidth Employee Review

3.0
17 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Benefits are pretty good, and pay has gone up recently - Lots of opportunities for advancement in the development organization if you do a great job - Seems like there is genuine effort to try to do the right thing, even if it's often not the right thing

Cons

- Bandwidth regularly loses high quality developers and struggles to replace them effectively; during COVID, bad policies led to an exodus of talent continues to ripple through the company today. I have had four different managers in a little over four years, and zero of the people I started with are still here. - The company acquired Voxbone about a year and a half ago and is still struggling to become a truly global company. There are efforts underway to accomplish this, but no one really has a strong vision of the product. I suspect part of this is due to the exodus mentioned before - At a development level, there's sometimes a lot of process to go through, as well as meddling from higher ups. It definitely promotes the idea of "it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission" - Bandwidth is still struggling to become a true software company. It has XML APIs without token-based auth...

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5.0
4 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- good work life balance - i enjoyed working

Cons

- no cons particualry worth noting

4.0
8 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Second to none benefits package (especially if you have a family), Work-life balance, flexibility with appointments, on site gym and sports facility, state forest with trails nearby, quarterly challenges to accrue extra PTO, working with some of the best people you'll ever know.

Cons

Poor internal communication at times, internal politics, automation needs

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