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Worst place to work - Software Developer CounterPath Corporation Employee Review

1.0
5 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free gym and soda, decent benefits package. It's a shame one can't feed their family a free gym membership.

Cons

Long hours, for a small company you have no impact on work and the ceo hasn't been able to turn a profit in a decade. Not sure if management even knows what direction they're heading or how to even use a smartphone. They rely on a product that is overpriced compared to competitors and for that reason has sold ten times less and post negative revenues. To top it all off the CEO who isn't able to steer the company in the right direction seems to be making decent amount, near a million dollars (publicly traded company, ceo salary is publicly available) while regular employees are underpaid about 25 percent less than market value. No raises in this company. Best decision i made was to leave. Nice people, but this company is headed under.

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CounterPath Corporation Response
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Thank you for sharing your opinion. The Telecommunications sector is changing rapidly and we is adjusting to meet the requirements of target segment: Enterprise customers. As a team we’re constantly working to learn from missteps and recover quickly – but when we don’t adjust quickly enough we certainly listen to feedback. We’re sorry to hear you brought up ideas and you felt they fell on deaf ears. Not sure if you raised that directly to your manager or other means—would have been good to know when it happened so we could improve. We’re in the midst of rolling out several different initiatives geared at engaging our team members more to hear ideas and collaborate at a greater scale such as Quarterly 1:1’s with our CEO and open forums. Thanks again for taking the time to share your concerns with us. It helps us in moving forward.

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4.0
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Pros

As a small company, Counterpath doesn't have many "management only" managers, and not much office politics. Most managers/team leaders are very technical hands-on, I feel this ensures that most engineers working here are good at what they do. I have been in this industry for more than a decade and have worked with a lot of engineers, some of Counterpath engineers are the best I have met. It's always great to work with the best. Time management is fairly flexible, as long as the job gets done in time. Many different technologies are involved in company's product, if interested, one has plenty chances to become expert in some areas just by doing his/her daily job.

Cons

Long hours, it's not easy for small companies to survive, so everyone is expected to do a lot. Technical wise is demanding, and you have to keep learning constantly to stay competent for your job, not for everyone. Benefits could be better.

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