MapQuest Software Developer reviews

Lack of communication from management and frequent re-orgs have really hit the culture hard. Moral is at an all time low. No clear path to advance career within the company, they often hire externally forcing people to leave in order to advance their career. Very little professional development support.

MapQuest has been in a state of constant flux since the beginning of 2017, you can view the glassdoor trends and see a major decline in ratings around that time. With Verizon bringing MapQuest under their own company and completely altering our benefits, vacation, promotions, and roadmaps (all arguably for the worse), a lot of people have been unhappy with the change and questionable about the company's future. More recently however, leadership has rolled out sweeping layoffs that target a large number of engineering staff without any discussion or recommendation from management. This adds even more to the uneasiness felt within the company, and in my opinion is creating a lot of distrust between engineering and leadership. In a nutshell: Unpredictable leadership making questionable decisions. Benefits under Verizon aren't really competitive in metro Denver area. Culture has changed, regardless what some might say. There's uneasiness in the office now. Denver office is extremely cramped for space, although that might change with the amount of layoffs about to happen. If you're a software engineer and looking at MapQuest, you're probably looking in the metro Denver area. There are numerous software companies in the area with benefits much better than you'll find here, and with leadership that doesn't seem to re-org the company every quarter. I would have whole-heartedly recommended MapQuest a year ago. Today, I can't do it. MapQuest seems like it's falling apart, and I wouldn't recommend anyone I know to be there when it does.