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Wise Systems (MA) Reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(42 total reviews)

Chazz Sims

80% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Wise Systems (MA) has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 42 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wise Systems (MA) 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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42 reviews
1.0
15 Apr 2023

CEO's friends, and friends of friends need to go

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The senior management has no idea how to run a company. They are not aware of who to promote and continually play office politics. The interpersonal relationships between Senior Management is one of the root causes of all the problems. The smartest employees are not identified, only employees who quickly ship garbage code. Quality is not a factor at Wise. Teamwork and collaboration is actively discouraged. you may actually get a negative performance review for doing that. This company is visually diverse but mentally homogeneous. The most senior engineer who built and architect 50% of the stack left.

Cons

How is it possible that employees who have barely contributed to the company's engineering were not laid off, and smart hard working people were. There has been a significant exodus in engineering. 15+ have left with most taking paycuts to go to more normal and decent firms. The nepotism like CEO-Management relationships is the death Knell for Wise Systems.

1.0
26 Mar 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great concept/ idea for the platform created by super smart MIT grads. They had solid core values they used to hold themselves to everyday. Good low cost benefits, market rate tech startup pay structure.

Cons

They are clearly not in the operational or financial position they continue to try to reassure us about. There have been layoffs in multiple waves since last fall. People just disappear from every department and nobody wants to talk about it. The smart ones have had the foresight to see things were not going well and jumped ship. Many amazing and talented people have walked away or run was more like it. The product is clearly not ready for the market or can't be implemented successfully which we've heard is handicapping the sales team. All Hands meetings are really depressing now and they keep trying to spin sell that everything is great. Newer senior leadership has totally changed the culture from one of values, collaboration and respect to one of fear and intimidation. It's not a fun time to be here.

2.0
14 Dec 2022

Mismanaged company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Startup culture, some great and caring people, cool product

Cons

Mismanaged company. Recent management changes brought in mid-level/upper level executives who barely understand both the business and how to run a company of the size. No one is aligned with each other on best practices. Layoffs were less of the issue than how they were managed with no regard to people. Lack of transparency in regards to company performance. A culture of working on tasks rather than strategy/meaningful projects. No work life balance, and no use of the unlimited PTO

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Wise Systems (MA) Response
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Thank you for your review of Wise Systems. Impacts on our workforce are a difficult decision for the organization but were necessary to prepare the company for the future. Wise Systems' priority is ensuring our employees work at their fullest potential while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. We strongly encourage our employees to use their Paid Time Off.
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