Professional Zombies Wanted - Anonymous employee FixYa Employee Review

2.0
8 Mar 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Located in San Mateo in the Franklin Templeton Building

Cons

- Do you have bad karma you would like to burn off? - Do you work well under constant supervision and being cornered like a rat in a trap? - Have you always wanted to operate at 10% of your talents? - Do you love having all the responsibility and none of the authority? - Have you always wanted to ride shotgun on the way to hell? - Do you enjoy regularly hearing quiet sobbing coming from an adjacent cubicle? FIXYA is for you!!! Qualifications and Requirements: Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product (even though you had no say in it, no influence over it and technically didn’t own it). Must be willing to face stimulating challenges; such as trying to figure out how interpret emails sent to you by the CEO and CTO. Must be deadline oriented – even though deadlines are arbitrary, you still have to feel the pressure. Your duties may vary. Expect tasks and priorities to be changed on an hourly basis.

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5.0
19 Oct 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Small and agile, people are friendly.

Cons

Low payment, constant change in directions.

1.0
24 June 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You will form strong bonds with the people you work with as you search for sanity. Plenty of space in the office since barely anyone makes it over a year. Become friends with the mannequins as soon as you can as they are the only "employees" who will still be there when you leave or get fired.

Cons

At your interview, you will be promised the world and complete freedom to succeed. You will soon find out this is not true at all. Simply ask any employee who has been here over a year (good luck finding any management who is still there over a year). All of the one star reviews here are from actual employees who worked there. The 5 star reviews are from management, offsite contractors or people who have worked at Fixya for less than 6 months. There are very few employees whom make it past the 1 year mark. I wish I had never worked here. I personally watched 12+ people leave in 6 months. Some quit with 2 week notices, some got fired during the holidays, and some just got up and left and never came back...seriously. I never seen this at any Bay Area company. There is no trust and in the end your skills and talents will be wasted. You will find yourself questioning your own abilities and you will leave here feeling mentally and emotionally exhausted. I found it funny that the dishwasher leaked in the kitchen everyday.

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