Transparent Leadership: The leadership team is open and communicative, making employees feel valued and heard.
Employee Benefits: The benefits package is comprehensive and competitive.
Professional Growth: There are numerous opportunities for career advancement and skill development.
Positive Work Environment: The workplace is friendly, inclusive, and supportive.
Challenging Work: The projects are challenging and engaging. Providing a great sense of accomplishment.
Cons
High Expectations: The company sets high standards, which can be demanding, but it also pushes you to excel.
DDN Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your feedback! We appreciate your positive comments and are glad to hear about your experiences with our leadership, benefits, professional growth opportunities, work environment, and challenging projects. We acknowledge that our high standards can be demanding. However, we believe that these high expectations have accelerated or phenomenal growth and helped our market leadership in AI.
Just a few colleagues. If you don't like your manager, you just wait a few months and you'll have a new one (probably worse than the previous).
Cons
Chaotic environment.
Toxic culture.
They'll add you to an on-call rotation. If you don't agree, say good bye to any raises and expect to be fired.
60 hours week are normal. You'll work weekends. One of the values of the company is 24x7 (so don't believe HR here when they say they don't expect you overwork because it is actually one of their values). If you don't, expect no raises, no options and you'll be fired quickly.
Pay is below average. They implemented a stock option plan that is so absolutely ridiculous that everybody minimally competent should quickly leave.
Benefits are below average.
Culture is toxic and it starts at the very top. Whenever they replace leadership (often) they just look for small dumb dictators that believe engineers are just resources. They don't ever have a clear idea of what to do with the product and shoot in all directions, because they are clueless. They are all fired after a few months and replaced with a new bunch of mediocre dumb dictators.
No career progression.
Pure chaos.
Pure marketing.
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DDN Response
1mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We are a Technology company and value the innovation, creativity and technical expertise of our engineering community. Creating a supportive and respectful technology oriented environment is a key priority for us. If you did not feel that during your time with DDN then we need to improve our efforts in highlighting the importance of our engineering teams that drive our technology as a leader in AI Data Intelligence. We recognize that periods of change can be challenging and we are actively working to strengthen our consistency in leadership, communication and employee experiences across the organization. We truly value the contributions of our team members and are committed to building a workplace where people feel supported, fairly compensated and able to grow in their careers.