Fantastic developer-oriented company COMPLETELY RUINED by foreign acquisition. - DevOps Automation Engineer Stelligent Employee Review

1.0
25 May 2020
Recommend
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Pros

* Some of the best AWS Engineers and Developers you'll find anywhere. * Unlimited PTO * Fully loaded MacBook Pro workstations * Mostly good projects / clients (at least until 2019) * Strong commitment to open-source projects (even post-merger, so far)

Cons

Like the other reviews here, Stelligent was a fabulous place for serious developers to work and play, until Nov. 8, 2018, the day that Mphasis Corporation bought the company for a paltry $25MM. We had no idea we were up for sale, but if we had known, we would have preferred to BUY IT OURSELVES from the previous owner, and become an Employee-Owned Company. But the deal was kept secret, and we didn't know anything about until it was too late to counter. Mphasis has completely ruined this Cloud Nirvana. They took away our 401k match contribution (really, WHO DOES THAT?), paid our expense reports weeks later than before, and worse, starting forcing us into horrible staff-augmentation projects with clueless clients down our throats. We lost most of our best engineers within a couple months, and hiring seems to have stopped completely. Comically, Mphasis likes to say they're adding "Financial Firepower" to the mix. Maybe, but WE were the target of those bullets. It's a shame that our economic system destroys great places to work so reliably. It was great fun while it lasted. RIP Stelligent!

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Thank you for leaving a review. At Stelligent, we are customer obsessed. That means we are committed to helping our customers reach their goals. The best way to do that is by interfacing directly with their teams, hands on keyboard, to design and implement AWS automation solutions and transfer that knowledge to our customers. This is how Stelligent has always operated, and this is how we continue to operate. We are very proud of our rigorous interview process that helps us continue to hire the best DevOps Automation Engineers in the industry. To provide any additional feedback, please write to feedback@stelligent.com.

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5.0
10 May 2022
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Pros

We get so much great feedback from our clients on the top notch quality of our engineers / consultants so that internal company references and growing customer relationships is a huge growth driver for Stelligent. I always advocate to never lover the bar on hiring, even now when talent is scare. The focus on only one cloud (AWS) but deep technical competency is a great advantage to close a deal and makes customers confident in our technical competency. It also lets internal training be focussed. Strong relationships to AWS teams

Cons

Sometime we run into issues with additional operational steps we need to complete on some systems with Mphasis as the owner.

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1.0
26 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Constantly shrinking list of great devops engineers

Cons

No raises in 5 years, hiring freeze in the last 3 years, no job security. Mphasis bought this company 5 years ago and has been slowly destroying it and now wonders why it's still on their balance sheet. Engineers were actually asked why we should keep you around/what value do you bring?! Down to less than 10 engineers who have likely stayed only because they don't feel like starting over. Down to a single manager who is powerless and as frustrated as the engineering team. This former niche shop that took care of it's employees won't exist much longer and there's nothing they can do about it. It's just a matter of how many employees they widdle down to before they just call themselves overpaid Mphasis employees.

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