Not Your Typical Office - Anonymous employee Progressive Innovation and Automation Employee Review

Literally none, not a single one

First things first, management and 'HR' lie about everything. They lie about the salary adjustment after your 3-month probation, they lie about remote possibilities, and they lie about your initial salary. I made it clear in my first interview what my salary expectations were and by the time it came around to receive an offer it was less than half of that. I made the mistake of saying I was recently laid off and it was used against me. Pawel, the Co-Founder who contacted me, was the worst interaction I have ever had with someone in a corporate setting. Not to mention almost the entire team is offshore in India and is paid peanuts, which reflects in their work quality. This company should be avoided at all costs.

- Nobody at the company knows anything about modern web applications, so I was able to make architectural decisions as an individual contributor - Casual dress attire - One time, someone came in from Famous Dave's with free samples

- Criminally low pay. - ZERO benefits (no insurance, no 401k, nothing) - You won't be able to go a single day without hearing racist or misogynistic comments by one of the heads of the company. - 8AM - 5PM without paid lunch - False promises on every single aspect of your career or the growth of the company (I was told there would be a raise after 3-6 months of good performance, a new office location was promised for over a year before I joined) - You might be encouraged to use obsolete technologies like Visual Basic, ADO.Net, and WebForms because that's what other people are familiar with. - There was an entire week in the office where there were no less than a hundred flies buzzing around because an animal died in the shop area upstairs. There was no exterminator hired. We were given the cheapest fly swatters and had to take care of it ourself. - Sometimes you'll be told "what" to do, and "how" to do it. - Claims to be a startup and Agile environment, when in reality, it's just poorly managed financially and day to day. Rather focusing on improving their core product and working on effective sales, you'll be asked to work on something for a new side business for the company nearly every month. There are no less than 6 "companies" being run out of that office by the same few people. - The A/C is put at such a low temperature for one person that you'll need a second layer in summer. - Headphones are discouraged. So instead, you get to hear four different genres of music blasting at the same time from everyone else's offices. - Working remotely may become an option after a point in time, but you're at the mercy of whenever a particular boss works from home that day too. And you won't know that until the day before.