Terrible Place to Work - Anonymous employee Mindflash Employee Review

2.0
8 Oct 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Liberal work from home policy and unlimited PTO. Pay was decent.

Cons

- Some of the tech stack is ancient (Angular 1, .NET), unmaintainable, and everyone spends 90% of their time complaining about it. - Most of the technical decisions were made by a small group of developers that were let go before they could pass on their knowledge. To be honest, it's as if those developers were trying to pad their resume with AWS knowledge, and decided to use the tech stack here as a playground. - Due to the above, the number of production issues on a daily basis is incredibly high, especially for a startup that's been selling the same product for over 10 years. - People are constantly trying to minimize the impact of production issues because they don't want to have to fix the bugs. - There is no real direction to improve the stack. It's more of a "we'll deal with things as they break" mentality, and when they decide to fix something, it's almost always a bandaid fix. - Unchecked bro culture. There's a lot of discussion that should not be had in a workplace. You'd think a company that makes HR software would value HR in general. They don't.

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5.0
8 Jan 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly and smart coworker, people leave their titles at the door. Management seems to be able to roll up their sleeves and get work done. I think the new team that's being assembled is invigorating and setting us up for success.

Cons

Some internal ambiguity on roles. We're a startup so there's sometimes times to wear multiple hats but that also means a lot of opportunity to grow.

5.0
23 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Top notch leadership that identifies problems early on and moves quickly to get them addressed. The work-life balance is on a rarified tier for a company. Quality trumps speed for the company, and the attitude is prevalent throughout. The company has a pretty open culture, including disclosure of monthly sales breakdowns. I have been at the company close to an year, and there are not a whole lot of companies that present such a high quality product development environment with such an excellent level of work-life balance. For software engineers, this is a fantastic company to learn & grow as a person, as well as improve technical skills & explore new things. The company is very accommodating to remote workers, with a good half of the product development team working remotely - I have worked remotely while traveling on multiple trips across the US, for example.

Cons

Pay is not as good as can be found elsewhere personally for me - this is pretty much the main downside I've found, and it is more due to my unique skills. I would also like to move faster in development, but understand that this is in some tension with work-life balance.

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