Leadership lacks vision, insists on rehashing the same product over and over - Software Engineer Intelius Employee Review

2.0
18 Nov 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Typically they have a very good work life balance. Employees are given fair compensation and decent benefits.

Cons

Compensation is fair, but not spectacular. Top level management is stagnant, and somewhat of an old boys club. Almost exclusively, the product ideas that gain traction are just a different methods of reselling the same data - with little innovation. The company feels like a business company rather than a technology company. Business successes and failures are celebrated or mourned throughout the company, while technology takes a back seat. Extremely high employee turnover, particularly among the more senior members of the engineering corps. There used to be a "work hard, play hard" culture, where successes were rewarded with fun great team events and blowout yearly parties. This has been replaced by a "work hard, work hard" culture, where I feel that many of our successes go unappreciated. Naveen Jain, the CEO, is a scumbag who has had multiple legal issues revolving around his invasion of personal privacy, deceitful marketing, and outright theft from previous companies.

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5.0
22 Oct 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Intelius has some of the most talented people working. I would have to say that the group of people is the best reason to work for Intelius (not to mention the comprehensive medical benefits). Employees including Senior management are always there to help and teach when needed. It's an awesome place to grow as a person and your career.

Cons

It's not really a downside but work pace is very dynamic and have to move very fast on projects and work items. It may be downside for some people used to working at big companies that takes months to roll out products and services.

2.0
12 Jan 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Overall the company is filled with hard working individuals who are great at their jobs. However, the executive team and upper management are disorganized and only concerned about the bottom line. The company has the potential to make great products but they are more concerned with tricking their customer base and making sub-par products as quickly as possible.

Cons

The executive and management team want to create products that do not work, are designed with technologies and UIs from the 90s and want it all done "yesterday." Working throughout the company-it was all disorganized and ran by individuals with little expertise and knowledge. Directors may have been working for 5 years and lead whole product and business groups...how does that work? There is rarely any room the advance, and if you do the only thing that changes is your title and you work longer hours. Expect to take a $10,000 pay cut and bonuses average to 1-2% and are not given on what you provided to the company but more on favoritism. So if you are not in the "boys" club there is no room for advancement.

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