Technology side run by inept MBAs - Senior Software Developer Datasite Employee Review

1.0
18 Sept 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You can get double digit raises every year by gaming their laughable and ridiculous performance metrics. Also if you're good at office politics then the sky's the limit at Merrill.

Cons

During the tail end of my tenure, developers were graded on the amount of bugs they introduced into a sprint. The less you had the better you looked. It didn't take long before the senior developers would only start assigning themselves easy low hanging fruit while passing off the difficult tasks to the junior developers. Within a year of this charade they shipped the entire dept to India.

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5.0
21 Jan 2026
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Pros

I like the people here and the office is nice.

Cons

No wellness stipend is offered.

2.0
1 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Coworkers are great. -Training is good. -Customers are usually ok to work with.

Cons

Summary: As a PSS, you'll be expected to support several different products, many of which you will not touch often. It's difficult to be an expert covering so many products and features. They change and update features often, which is both good and bad for customers, but also makes it much more difficult for PSS. You handle really sensitive information (M&A), but are expected to assist multiple customers at once - this is a huge risk. Additional cons: -They implemented a AI agent and then fired several great employees, then increased the rest of the staffs expected workload. -They change ways of working often. -The knowledge base is often out of date. -There's almost always a backlog, but the clients work can be "urgent" - making some clients upset on wait time.

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