Most toxic experience of my life - Software Engineer ConnectiveRx Employee Review

1.0
27 Apr 2024
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Pros

Great benefits Food brought in

Cons

I am not exaggerating or being dramatic when I say that the time I spent working at Connective rx was probably the worst year of my entire life. The management and even some coworkers are awfully toxic individuals. Let me start with my former manager. A workaholic who constantly stressed about everything and micromanaged everyone. Everything was on fire and everyone was deemed incompetent but her. Shed make you give updates every few hours and if you didn't complete your ticket by the end of the day shed give your tickets to the offshore team which would rush through it. They'd basically create technical debt by completing as many tickets as possible and breaking more than they fix. Every morning at 9am we would have a scrum call which essentially consisted of my manager yelling and insulting everyone. In fact sometimes I would even be called into their office to essentially be told "why did we even hire you? You can't do anything right." I became so insecure over time from these constant insults. I even had a panic attack one time thinking about how I had to come into work the next day. And mind you that was the first and only time I have experienced that. The management also played favorites and would actively supress information from people they didn't like. It not only happened to me but I was forced into being complicit in it. We once had a new coworker. Who naturally had yet to learn the ins and outs. I was explicitly told not to help her out so that the manager could call her incompetent for not knowing things when she was literally never told them. My former lead was extremely passive aggressive towards me and talked behind my back. I have no idea what I did to deserve that seeing as I was nothing but extremely respectful to him. He was promoted to manager. I had a coworker I was often forced to interact with which might have just been the most insecure individual I've ever known. Constantly tried to one up me on everything and downplay anything I said. It was infuriating. I had a coworker who once questioned my former manager. She made a very valid point by bringing up a problem with how things were set up. Rather than acknowledging the issue my manager gaslit her and then actively prevented her ticket from being moved all because she was too petty to accept she is wrong sometimes. This poor woman was blocked for months and verbally insulted until she was brought to tears. When I finally found another job I slowly became happy again. A feeling that I almost began to forget when I worked at Connective rx. The management is absolutely awful. I still have nightmares about my experience there.

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5.0
3 Mar 2026
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Pros

Teams are collaborative - coworkers are knowledgeable and you are able to work together to excel at your job. Great feed back from peers. Your experience is transferable to other positions or companies - equipment is not too outdated - they use jobforce CRM and other updated technologies - Hybrid - They have training on all levels that really assist in personal development and career development.

Cons

Management is often promoted internal without experience or consideration as to how they interact with their team members. Upper management is anywhere from providing opportunities to being exceptionally out of touch. It is surprising how often upper management is inexperienced, The insecurities of those kinds of managers it make it hard to have a collaborative effort to get things done. Communication is shut down quickly with no resolution "just shut up and you are the problem attitude" instead having a desire to understand the situation and attempting to work together for the benefit of all.

2.0
1 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There are some really good people here.

Cons

They punish hard workers with relocations to new teams and act like it's a promotion or a recognition of achievement. They advertise a hybrid schedule but each time you're moved to a new team they take it away and it resets again til when they feel you're okay to resume. The team changes can happen multiple times a year. Someone in the same position can get paid to do less work than someone who is given 5 times the workload. There is favoritism. I have been told not to discuss wages even though that is illegal. Time has been removed from my timesheet to accommodate only 40 hours, even if you work a couple minutes over. You are expected to be logged in and ready for your shift by the time your shift starts, and you are not paid for the time to log in and be ready. There is a 7 minute "grace period" where they don't pay you for the time and round up or down depending on where you are in that 7 minute period. Raises are not even enough for a standard of living increase. Recognition is far and few between.

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