management will act surprised, but anyone inside can see the ship starting to sink - Programmer Verivo Employee Review

2.0
30 Oct 2013
Recommend
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Pros

great campus, smart employees who care and work hard. solid benefits.

Cons

management who have zero experience in their roles and departments. a little scary to have a VP of a department who has no experience doing what they are supposed to be overseeing a team for. also, poor management communication to general staff. As a programmer, you want to know what is going on with sales. however, you only receive sugar coated nonsense and silly weekly updates that tell you nothing. not to mention the company launches a product- leaves the other product and former clients essentially in the lurch- with insanely unrealistic targets against a sales cycle that everyone on the "floor" knew was way longer than forecasted for....nice people but

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5.0
27 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

good upraises healthy environment nice team work

Cons

too stringent on pay none

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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