Amazing experiences and people that balance life and work successfully. - Senior Developer Mindflash Employee Review

5.0
31 May 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Agile software shop. Great product and leadership. Honest investors. Privately held. In the heart of Silicon Valley with a focus on excelling in the online learning market. Compassionate, Caring co-workers. Funny, sarcastic tones. Respectful environment. Willing to work with you not against you. Customer focused, UX focused, Product Value focused. Have successfully shipped new versions of their service every month for years. Vacations are always honored if given notice ahead of time.

Cons

Working in a small software company means you don't have too many extra people to delegate things to. Everyone is required to take up the small odds and ends jobs to help keep the company going.

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5.0
8 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly and smart coworker, people leave their titles at the door. Management seems to be able to roll up their sleeves and get work done. I think the new team that's being assembled is invigorating and setting us up for success.

Cons

Some internal ambiguity on roles. We're a startup so there's sometimes times to wear multiple hats but that also means a lot of opportunity to grow.

2.0
8 Oct 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Liberal work from home policy and unlimited PTO. Pay was decent.

Cons

- Some of the tech stack is ancient (Angular 1, .NET), unmaintainable, and everyone spends 90% of their time complaining about it. - Most of the technical decisions were made by a small group of developers that were let go before they could pass on their knowledge. To be honest, it's as if those developers were trying to pad their resume with AWS knowledge, and decided to use the tech stack here as a playground. - Due to the above, the number of production issues on a daily basis is incredibly high, especially for a startup that's been selling the same product for over 10 years. - People are constantly trying to minimize the impact of production issues because they don't want to have to fix the bugs. - There is no real direction to improve the stack. It's more of a "we'll deal with things as they break" mentality, and when they decide to fix something, it's almost always a bandaid fix. - Unchecked bro culture. There's a lot of discussion that should not be had in a workplace. You'd think a company that makes HR software would value HR in general. They don't.

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