Was a great career opportunity, but future is uncertain - Consultant Verivo Employee Review

3.0
26 July 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some very smart and talented people; gives its employees tremendous opportunities to learn and grow in an in-demand industry; does a good job of recognizing talent and promoting from within; benefits are pretty good; a beautiful office; the small-to-mid-sized software company culture. If you're looking to break into mobile and want the small start-up software company feel (and are willing to accept the significant risks that go with it), the company could be a good choice.

Cons

Company faced significant turnover and was forced to have layoffs after it's last major software product steadily became irrelevant (the new office is now half-empty as a result). In fairness to management, they recognized the problem before the company became totally unviable, and the company is now in the process of reinventing itself with its next-gen product, named 'Akula'. Will the product be successful? The jury is out, and if the answer is no, all employees will soon be out of a job. As a result, I can currently only recommend it to people who don't mind driving fast and taking chances. The CEO is smart and talented, but seems to have only passing control of overall product direction, which suffers at the hands of a disjointed product management process that seems to struggle with mapping software development tasks to actual customer needs. Starting compensation is competitive, but doesn't seem to keep pace with the industry as careers progress. This seems to be an issue at a lot of companies, though.

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5.0
27 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good upraises healthy environment nice team work

Cons

too stringent on pay none

5.0
18 Mar 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Over the last two years, there have been extensive changes to the business. The first changes were around product packaging and pricing, where we set the new standard on how to sell a mobile platform. Then we went on to Marketing, where we a whole new level of management to bring greater capabilities to our branding, communications and lead generation. Our rebranding in 2012 was a huge success, and we are more measurable and goal oriented. Then we set out to update engineering when we changed from a rather loose development process to the Agile methodology. That major change resulted in better predictability around delivery dates, higher software quality, and an all-around better product. Next we set out to modernize our sales organization, leveraging more modern techniques to scale our efforts and generate revenue at a greater velocity. We are currently developing the next generation of enterprise mobile enablement, and expect to drive the market in a whole new direction. As a long time employee, I see the work going into driving our success. People across the company are working very hard, and are excited with the results. I'm extremely proud of the effort that our team continues to put forth to drive our success, and I have strong belief in the future of Verivo.

Cons

Making big steps can be painful. I think the company is driving forward as well as can be expected, in light of the innovation that is involved.

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