eNom Reviews

3.7

46% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

Paul A. Stahura

81% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
1.0
20 Oct 2014

It USED to be a good company to work for

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Nice area to work in. Great view towards the water in Kirkland. * Snacks, free Friday lunches. * Pay is reasonable but could be better. * Medical benefits are ok * Flexible hours. * Showers in the building if you bike to work.

Cons

* No sufficient parking in the company parking lot. There is a lottery on who gets the parking spots. * Lack of respect for employee privacy and confidentiality, including open discussion of individual employee's performance in hallways. * The CEO is a complete imbecile when it comes to organizational management and his decisions are un-done on regular basis but called "alignment". It's unfortunate that he cannot reflect on the bad decisions made. * The management style is fear , intimidation and backstabbing in which an apprehensive work environment has been created. Only people who can further this kind of management style are hired in upper management. * The whole work environment can only be described as HOSTILE as the constant layoffs and re-orgs have taken its toll and will never stop until all non conforming employees are gone. * The CEO is completely isolated from the rest of the company by a small inner circle of his "friends" whose agenda is to make sure only their ideas get heard and executed. * There is no transparency from upper management, but as always nothing can be kept secret and rumors spread like wildfire. * The Human Resource department is always on the side of the company and will never hear a concerned employees point of view or do anything about most issues. Any performance plan is designed to make sure the employee will fail. * Projects and products developed are many times setup as favors to friends of the CEO and the inner circle. These projects never contribute the bottom line but are always hailed as "BIG WINS". Anybody who questions these projects gets shunned as not being a team player. * Turnover in the last two years has been the highest in the company's history and the silly explanations from management is always that every exit has been under unique circumstances. * Outsourcing ( aka favors to friends ) is always favored as a solution to every problem instead of looking to the employees who have more experience in the industry. * More VPs and executives have been hired than engineers who actually can do real work to support the systems and products. * Product management is extremely poor ,under performing and there is no interaction between customers and product management. Projects are mostly comprised by specs that are not researched or understood and combined with arbitrary deadlines with no ground in reality. * Team moral is at the all time low but the CEO seems to think that everything is great as his inner circle will never tell the truth. * Employees have many great ideas but these ideas will never see the light of day as management prohibits any ideas to become projects in fear of imaginary costs. * Favoritism is rampant and friends of upper management are being promoted/hired and treated much better than the people that are performing. * Many employees are spending more time working on keeping their job than actually doing their job in fear of being laid off or managed out these days. * You cannot be promoted to upper management anymore as those positions are mostly filled by friends of the inner circle. Alternatively, those positions are filled with people who have more "experience", but as always it turns out that this is not true. * Company communication is extremely poor and the running joke "We will communicate better next time" has become the norm. * As stated by previous reviews of this company , the QA team is a joke and most of the other teams have to constantly compensate for their incompetence. * Employees input is never taken into consideration when it comes to company wide technical changes and changes are decided with the pretense that everybody will just go with it and be happy. * Endless delays and in-decisions by upper management when it comes to products and services are systematic and the company is always looking for some of the shelf silver bullet solution. This has led to products and services that are technically 6 years behind the rest of the industry. * Company parties are the most awkward interactions with upper management and employees. Upper management always isolates themselves and put up their fake smiles and a send a signal of being busy if a conversation get started with a normal employee. * Personal attacks in meetings are common and employees are in constant fear of being mocked in meetings. This has created an environment where only a few talk while the other are passive. * In meetings the behavior of many VPs is adolescent at best . Stupid jokes are more common than intelligent and productive communication. Time is always wasted. * Company personnel survey results are never published or shared in a meaningful way as there is fear of being transparent.

2.0
15 July 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The location is great (they moved to Kirkland and have an awesome view of the lake), the benefits package is better than most in the area, free lunch on Fridays (often with beer and/or wine), friendly people.

Cons

Horrible, megalomaniac department manager who bossed, but never led. No opportunity to advance. Once you are in a position, be prepared to stay there till you leave. Isolated away from the rest of the office, making communication and networking impossible. Management always backed the customer's word over an agent's, even when they were lies. Tech support management had no ethics or backbone in dealing with customers, making them easy to manipulate thru Facebook and Twitter. Too focused on investor return and not the company well being. Senior management has no concept of data presentation or dissemination. Threats of poor reviews if you did not do voluntary overtime, which was already covered by a few people that took it all in the first place. No long view, road-map or plan for the future.

2.0
21 June 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible hours, okay pay and benefits, lots of perks like snacks, lunch on Fridays, beer on Thursday afternoons, etc. Nice location on Lake Washington (nice view, great location for going on a jog or taking a walk by the water). Showers in the building so you can bike to work and not stink.

Cons

As a Demand Media company: Senior management seems very shady. Millions of dollars are funneled into acquiring companies owned by friends of upper executives. VPs that do virtually nothing but try to accept credit for others work and blame others for their own failures are hired in Santa Monica at high pay. Within eNom itself: Developers are not treated like they are appreciated. Management knows little about actual professional code development practices, nor do they care. Coordination for code release and QA is a joke. Developers are given arbitrary deadlines to hit that usually have no connection with real life, so they are forced to cut corners to get things out on time. Then, they are expected to waste over half of their time fixing the stuff they threw out there to make upper management happy. Projects that get pushed are most often something dreamed up by some upper manager, then all resources are devoted to developing something that many times ends up being scrapped or is a huge failure. Suggestions for product improvements by employees are generally turned down (recent "Hackathon" notwithstanding). Many projects need to be updated, fixed, or rewritten to accommodate features that customers have asked for but managers will not allow the changes for fear that something will break. High visibility projects are highly prized, and announced loudly to the company with the slogan "Big Win!!!" even though they contribute little to the bottom line. If your project happens to be absolutely necessary for backend servers to function but there is no pretty UI attached, expect to be asked what you "actually did" during the year in your review. Promotions are rare, as friends of management are usually brought in from outside the company to fill those roles.

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