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      3.8

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (59 total reviews)
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      Lars Albright

      87% approve of CEO

      76% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity and inclusion

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Culture and values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Senior management

      SessionM has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 59 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SessionM 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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      59 reviews
      1.0
      22 Feb 2018

      Not a place for longevity

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Pretty transparent; the people there are very nice; still small so not a lot of layers of management; not overly demanding. Also, there is room where you can spread your wings take on large projects if you are motivated. Nice office location.

      Cons

      The technology is not very interesting (aging RoR monolith) and therefore don’t think they will be the next HubSpot. I have concerns about their scalability both from a technical perspective and an engineering organization. In addition, I think the company suffers from a lot of churn so the code suffers from lack of ownership and lots of half finished hacks. Finally, the company is dominated by B players.

      3.0
      5 Oct 2016

      Complicated product with high expectations for quick learning

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      1. The team I was part of offered great learning opportunities. It's a place where you never have a day where you don't learn something. 2. Management is very supportive of their employees. 3. Awards for people that perform and produce outstandingly 4. Free, freshly brewed coffee. Free lunch on Wednesday, free bagels on Friday, and free beer after 5pm (where drinking is part of the culture) 5. Open environment . . . no cubicles. Not bad, if you are into rubbing elbows with your neighbor (literally) 6. Supportive team environment. Everybody works hard attempting to produce a quality product

      Cons

      1. No training. Learn a complex product on the fly. There is no learning path. There is no guidance by management. It would have been beneficial to me to have someone that actually was a mentor, not the "silent" one who I had to prod to get answers from the first couple of months I was there. I was also put in charge of evaluating this person, who had quite a bit of knowledge, but was put in a vise in order to get the product out quickly, resulting in multiple unfound bugs. 2. Open environment . . . no cubicles 3. Noisy environment . . . co-workers were leaving the building to find a quiet place to work and concentrate 4. Management wall - no longer a flat communications model 5. Hair on fire releases, probably because deliveries run behind schedule frequently. One client delivery was 11 months behind 6. Psuedo agile environment - some teams have daily standups. I attended one retrospective where a manager volunteered to take notes. A white board was in the room, but it wasn't used. Mentioned weighing tasks as a team, and was quickly brushed off, being told that product/project management had already discussed it (without QA). 7. Minimal use of JIRA board 8. Pull back on boasting about large projects with short time cycles. Boasting should occur when you have a bug free release and releases are on time, even with large customers 9. Tendency to focus on the younger crowd

      2.0
      13 June 2018

      Lots of pros...but also lots of cons. Prepare to work long hours.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Good vision for the product and company; good CEO - Employees are given lots of responsibility & accountability - Lots of current and prospective clients (company is on a growth trajectory) - Great health care benefits, which is well-funded by the company so employees don't have to pay too much - Intelligent coworkers who work hard to deliver work on time - Good HQ location in the Seaport district - Snacks, drinks, & beer-on-tap; free lunch on Wednesdays - The senior team hosts a helpful monthly update meeting - The company is still fairly small so it's a pretty flat organization (not a lot of beaurocracy)

      Cons

      - Incredible amounts of work to be done and not enough resources to do them - Employees are pressured to work very long hours. Their website says they have a "work hard, play hard" culture, but "play hard" activities happen only rarely (despite what the website says). - Most employees are very nice; others....not so much - Seems to be a lot of employee churn for such a small company - Limited professional development / training opportunities - Some of the managers are ... not great - No 401K match - No parking or transit benefit (though they do have a program where you can pay for your own parking or transit using pre-tax dollars) - No vision plan

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