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      Presto Reviews

      3.4

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (112 total reviews)
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      Krishna K. Gupta

      57% approve of CEO

      49% positive business outlook

      Presto has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Presto employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      112 reviews
      1.0
      14 Aug 2015

      Good people but terrible upper management and delusional vision

      Engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      1. A lot of great people work or have worked here (not including upper management), some are incredibly brilliant, dedicated and full of personality. 2. Somewhat relaxed work environment 3. Good benefits 4. Flexible schedule

      Cons

      1. Main mission of company is delusional and doomed to failure, the future of restaurant ordering and payments are apps and BYOD, not putting a custom tablet on every table. The logistics involved in running a software, hardware, and managed services company on a start up budget are practically impossible to overcome. 2. CEO is sexist, clueless, arrogant and in no way qualified to run even the smallest of companies. He is cheap, completely unprofessional, untrustworthy and out of his depth in almost every category. He does not recognize or respect his most valuable employees and after awhile you begin to realize that everything that comes out of his mouth is a manipulation or complete lie. 3. Upper management is outclassed and overpaid. People get promoted only if they agree with everything the CEO says and are personally liked by the CEO. These individuals are then placed into lofty positions that they are in no way equipped to handle and then given massive pay raises which neither fit their skill level or experience. These people are usually buddy buddy with the CEO and arrogant to the core. 4. The pay is terrible for the area. The money you should be getting paid will instead be divided amongst the CEO's chosen few. Development engineers are paid vastly more than any other functional group (even if their job is no more critical or technical) but even the average dev is limited in respect to the CEO's golden boys... and I do mean boys because he despises women. 5. They are constantly bleeding talent; the turn over rate is flat out insane. People are jumping ship left and right because they get fed up with the favoritism and idiocy displayed by the CEO and upper management. And god forbid they discover how much more money their unqualified boss or the devs make, because they will rage quit in a heart beat. It's really a shame because a lot of hard work goes into finding and hiring excellent talent. Then the upper management comes along and ruins all that hard work. 6. Expect to work insane hours, give your complete devotion to the company and never be compensated or even acknowledged for it. If fact you will probably just be made to feel guilty for not working even more.

      1.0
      3 Feb 2015

      Literally the worst group of human beings I've ever worked with

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Caltrain pass. Created lasting relationships with a small group of colleagues.

      Cons

      Incompetent management, No company culture, lack of accountability, no regard for the welfare employees. Departments work against each other instead of collaborating to produce results and the respective management teams surround themselves with YES men. This is an environment driven by ego so if you're looking for a company culture shrouded in negativity, then take a job here. I could not be more disappointed in the time I spent working at E la Carte.

      1.0
      14 Aug 2020

      I take back my older review

      Devops engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The pros that were once here are gone. It used to be that this place was like a group of best friends making it through. There used to be free lunches. There used to be communication... Only good thing about this place are the employees. Not so much the upper management aside from a couple guys.

      Cons

      There was once a time I wouldn't be writing this review. I wrote an older 5 star review when I was a couple months in. That's no longer a reflection of this company as it stands today. This place is in shambles. I have to be careful what I say as I have tried to post before but it was taken down. In short, Presto will make a lot of promises to you that it either cant or wont keep. It happened to me that I was promised a certain amount of a raise only to have the company forget that they ever made the agreement in the first place. For having a disagreement in direction with my department I was isolated away from it, put into some limbo position 'individual contributor'. They also cut everyone's pay and promised to pay it back, and the only way you can get that money back is convoluted. If you quit or are fired, any money you lost from the cut stays lost. You have to work their an additional 12 months to get that money, only after they deem it 'safe' to reinstate normal wages. They're currently doing my friend dirty as well. When I left I was asked to pass off my work, which I did to another employee. No names, but we worked closely together and I have trained him up to do my job over the course of a year. I was told he would be taking on my devops role. Not so. Instead the vp pulls him into a meeting just to tell him how he's not going to get the position. Further more, they recently made it very clear they were not going to promote from within for my position. It used to be that the company cared more about its employees than money. Now I see that this was a facade. People I knew there are leaving or are planning to leave.

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