Bitovi Reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)

Justin Meyer

76% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Bitovi has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bitovi 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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19 reviews
4.0
22 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work remotely, have a lot of independence, and are generally framed to clients as highly talented, capable experts (and you're usually treated that way). Bitovians are all smart, funny, talented individuals and make me proud to be considered their peers. Time shifting is easy and flexible, and you can basically do anything you need to during the day and put in your hours later -- unless you have a meeting or something else important, you don't even need to ask for permission or mention it.

Cons

Contracting keeps you on the move between projects semi-regularly, which can be draining. Some companies like using contractors as the first line of finger pointing when a project goes downhill. Rarely get to work in-person with other Bitovians, and are usually surrounded by more frustrating people at individual contracts. Constant travel can be annoying, and travel time isn't compensated -- most people are expected to travel for a week every month. Considering we're all supposed to be very senior/advanced JavaScript developers, compensation is also meager, considering the relatively small overhead and the hourly rate charged to clients.

3.0
14 Apr 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent work-life balance as a remote working consultancy. Everyone employed there is super knowledgeable and helpful. Extremely bright people. I had no issue with pay or benefits, everything was on par with both my level of experience and where I am geographically located. Decent list of clients with a mixture of big names, and smaller to mid size start ups.

Cons

CEO who thinks he can do 18 jobs at once, micro managing every detail of every project. The power dynamics here are not great and and it was often a point of frustration for everyone I spoke too. Justin speaks about self managing employees, but will not leave them alone long enough to complete tasks inside their own team groups. His standards for what is quality are often indecipherable and will rely on crude drawings to explain a point. He often involves himself deeply in matters in which he is far from being a subject matter expert and will not defer to those experts instead favoring his own brand of wisdom based on past success. I took a risk taking the job here from a very safe contract role where I enjoyed my work, but felt underpaid and was without benefits. The writing should have been on the wall for me as soon as the existing product director left as soon as I signed on, a new hire was let go, and another long term employee moved on to a position at a former client.

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Bitovi Response
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Thank you for sharing open feedback about your time at Bitovi. I’m very sorry you found it difficult to work with me and that your experience at Bitovi wasn't what you'd expected it to be. We value feedback, which is why we regularly ask our team and our clients for feedback and try to use it to improve Bitovi as often as possible. While we don't believe anyone can do 18 jobs at once, we do value our team's work-life balance, as well as hiring the right individual for a role. Sometimes this means filling gaps as needed with myself or other team members until we can hire the right person. In working through the best solution for the client or project, we encourage questions and discussing what works or doesn’t work as part of the day-to-day at Bitovi. This is not because I or someone else knows better, but because this is how we come to know more as a team. As a best practice, we ask our team to proactively get feedback early and often. A quick "here's what I'm thinking" or drawing shared on Slack can often save us all a great deal of time or serve as a foundation for discussion. We will take your feedback and continue to use it to improve as a company. We wish you the best. Justin
2.0
2 Mar 2025

Not great for designers

Recommend
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Pros

Hands off managers: You work directly with your clients and generally set your own schedule and workload.

Cons

Hands off managers. They seem to be checked out of wanting to be quality people managers. Lack of inspiration. Dispersed team with little to no chance to bond. A true lack of direction and leadership. It's not a place for designers who value growth, or strong leaders. Not a good outlook for the design team in general.

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