Unrealistic deadlines - Anonymous employee Striiv Employee Review

2.0
26 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Members of management, especially the former CTO did invest in your career growth. * There are employees who do care about the quality of the product that they are building and are competent enough to achieve it.

Cons

* There has never been a time in the years that I've worked there that the engineers building a product where consulted about the timeline. When both management and engineering departments accept that a schedule is 'unrealistic.' This creates a stressful work environment and unsatisfied customers. * Quality is suffering due to the impossible deadlines and too much time is being wasted firefighting. * A proper QA process does not exist to detect problems in advance.

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5.0
19 Nov 2018
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Pros

CEO has excellent product instincts and execution. He was able to create an environment to get products out quickly and on time. Prepare for an intense, drink from firehose type workplace.

Cons

Expect to get a lower than market salary (but receive stock options).

4.0
28 July 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You'll wear all the hats. There's actual opportunity for advancement, and you're surrounded by people who care about what they do. Nobody does the insane 90 hour crunch weeks as a habit, and that's not expected or encouraged. This isn't perk central, but as far as insurance/benefits go, you're looking at packages you'd expect from a much larger company (including the employee discount package for stuff like movie tickets/destinations, etc... that you'd get at Cisco), and there are (almost) always snacks/sandwich makings/soda in the fridge.

Cons

You'll wear all the hats. This is definitely a start-up, with all the good and bad that comes with it. If you have a skill that's not your primary function, you will most likely to be called on to use it. More transparency is always good, but in this case it's not information being intentionally hidden, it's just that there are so many balls in the air that information can take a long time to get where it needs to go, and deadlines can suddenly appear out of nowhere.

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