Workopolis Reviews

First off the salaries aren't competitive with the rest of the Toronto market, and the work isn't overly innovative and interesting. They are trying to turn that around on the technology side, but it's way too late. There is a huge mountain of technical debt for them to overcome and they are also trying to switch technologies at the same time with a very limited number of developers left in the building, who are not proficient in these new development languages yet. Somehow amidst all of this they will have to maintain our existing products. It's unlikely we will produce any new product development work until I'm guessing late next year. This new strategy comes from our new CTO, who at the moment is calling the shots for pretty much the whole company, so we're all left wondering if we actually have a President in the building, or if he's actually the CEO instead. I presume by the time they clean up technology and make it more efficient for us to create new products, we'll be dead in the water as LinkedIn, Indeed and all the other job board players will have come out with even better products and services. We're just so behind that that it's rather frustrating and it's no wonder the people with the talent and great ideas leave Workopolis. How can you blame them? On that note, since our revenue is so flat, we are constantly laying off people left and right. This has been happening for a few years now. And with the new CTO in place, I gather we'll lose more people because his leadership style is not inclusive, and no one in Technology actually believes his vision is feasible. It's rather worrisome. The environment today in the office is stormy and morale is at a high time low. Workopolis used to be a place where they valued openness and honesty, but not anymore. Today you're afraid you'll lose your job if you speak critically about the new strategy. We've seen this happen already with a few people who have left the building.

- Last year, they hired a few people who are very good at presenting themselves as passionate and innovative. They are usually great speakers and have lots of ideas (good or bad). However, they all failed to meet deadlines and cannot deliver. The projects they worked on dragged on for almost a year, people from other teams had to stop their work and help finish what they cannot finish. This added a lot of stress to the team-mates. They tried to let management know but since the managers are all fooled by their talks (and didn't see how they argued with co-workers on the most trivial things which is a waste of everyone's time or simply, they were too busy laughing at cat videos on YouTube/chatting on-line), they refused to listen. Eventually, the company lost a lot of money due to these incapable workers, and the fact that other capable people had to cover for them. - Company invested tons of money to sign a deal with a partner, and spent almost a year to let the in house technology team to integrate with the partner's product, thinking it's the next big thing. What they didn't see is they are totally targeting the wrong market and nobody wants to buy the product once it was done. The Marketing people who signed the deal were long gone and got another great job in another place, while the people left behind had to clean up the mess.