Dedicated Staff but Unstructured Environment & Low Pay
Pros
SimplePractice creates a great product that helps a lot of people. The employees are very enthusiastic and dedicated to their work. Flexible hours and work from home.
Cons
As to be expected in any start-up, SimplePractice is a chaotic place to work. Priorities are constantly shifting and you need to be really good at handling multiple projects at once. Yet, I can't help but think this start-up is far more hectic than most. You never know day-to-day which projects will be the priority. To make things worse, the CEO acts like someone with ADD and is continually changing his mind on which projects are high priority, creating an overall stressful and exhausting work environment. The CEO treats his staff in an equally unstable and unpredidctable manner -- some days you're his favorite person in the world but then the next, for seemingly no reason, you're suddenly the most despised human left on earth. There's zero staff development here. If you make a mistake, you're more likely to be fired rather than helped and guided so you figure it out. Meanwhile, if you're not one of the favored ones, expect to be spoken badly of behind your back. The company also has a history of making rash and unsound decisions that can be a huge waste or resources -- while employee wages are pitiful at best, and nowhere near the going market rates. I'm sure a lot of this is typical for a tech start-up, but still, it's a generally unpleasant and miserable place to work. Unless you have a very thick skin and don't mind low pay and being unappreciated, don't work here.
