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      AppDirect Reviews

      3.6

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (392 total reviews)
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      Nicolas Desmarais

      77% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Diversity and inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.8

      Culture and values

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      AppDirect has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 392 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AppDirect 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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      392 reviews
      2.0
      6 Oct 2016

      Could be better

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Working with very smart, talented and exceptional people. - Friendly atmosphere and good events that brings the team together. - Great office and good perks Silicon Valley style. Fridge is full and there is a foosball table. All that kind of stuff! - Good salary but it depends on how well you negotiate at the beginning. - Great customers with big names.

      Cons

      - Very talented employees but almost all under utilized and undervalued. Engineering is undervalued compared to business and growth. - You are likely not going to learn anything new or work on anything interesting if you are already a seasoned engineer. If you don't immediately need money ask for a tour of the code base, take your time and evaluate then decide. Pretty much like any other job ! - If you are a junior engineer I recommend you start somewhere you can learn good engineering practices. or make sure to allocate sometime to read and contribute to open source and pick up clean code to learn something other than if-driven development. - Recognition and raises are terrible. - YES men are running the show from a closed circle of 'expert beginners'. If you don't know the this 'term', search for "Rise of the expert beginner" and try hard to not become one if you decide to take a job at AppDirect. - Townhalls are just a Void and their sole function is to help with the egos of executives. - Executives live in a bubble. Work is not engineering focused and engineering issues are not seen or addressed. - People who have never been coding find it appropriate to have strong opinion on and/or make technical decisions.

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      AppDirect Response
      9y
      Thank you for sharing your experience here at AppDirect, we have grown tremendously in the past couple years, adding hundreds of new employees, and major customers across the globe. We are aware the growth process is challenging and are sorry that you found it so painful. We are working hard to improve both our communications and our Engineering org and with the assistance of the smart and talented people you mention, we will make AppDirect an ever better place to work! We would be interested in discussing your feedback further and encourage you to reach out to HR@appdirect.com
      2.0
      23 Dec 2022

      Multiple rounds of layoffs, lack of direction

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good work life balance, nice coworkers. Strong connections of Desmarais billionaire family meant the company was able to secure a lot of funding in the past years.

      Cons

      Pay low compared to market. Lack of direction for company, continually changing strategy for target market, pricing, etc every single year because of lack of success. Multiple rounds of layoffs over last year despite articles from VP of HR claiming strong growth and hiring. Moving as many positions as possible to Argentina and India while still trying to charge extremely high hourly prices for professional services.

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