An ADHD Company - Technical Architect Universal Mind Employee Review

2.0
25 Oct 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The tech team, prior to decimation, was amazing. The design team was top notch. The people in the trenches were always great to work with on projects.

Cons

Where to start? Every few years, a new direction was attempted. Either an office being opened somewhere it wasn't needed, or an attempt to forge a new identity, UM was never able to settle on what it was after Adobe shut down Flex. Combine that with a rotating door of inept sr sales executives who had the next brilliant idea (and didn't), inept marketing executives, and leadership that got embroiled in a rather unsavory sex scandal, you get a company that became its own worst enemy. It forgot that its most valuable assets are their employees, and treated them as commodities.

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5.0
20 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Incredible culture, amazing talent, and inspiring work environment.

Cons

Not worth sharing now that they are closing. They did the best they could and I'm grateful for my time with the company.

5.0
7 Jul 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I smiled when I saw that UM had almost all 5 star reviews on Glassdoor. Seems to good to be true doesn't it? Every company has it's flaws, but to be honest, I have yet to discover what those are here (they didn't pay me to say this, I swear). Someone below said that this company feels like "home", and I couldn't have said it better myself. I've worked for some top notch start up tech companies in Silicon Valley that were seemingly wonderful on the outside, but once in the door, the flaws and cracks in their culture became painfully apparent. Admittedly, it's difficult to keep a great culture as a company scales, but Universal Mind has somehow dialed it in effortlessly. Despite my hesitations to join a distributed culture (I've always worked onsite) I've come to discover that it's really the best culture I've ever been a part of. Whether it's the hilarious conversations on Slack, interesting google hangout meetings, company off-sites where everyone can come together and get to know each other, the flexible schedule, or just generally working with some of the smartest, most creative folks in the industry, I can say with absolute honesty that this company is by far my favorite place to work thus far in my career. This is a place where your ideas and opinions are heard, upper management instills trust and autonomy in their staff, and no one person is any better than anyone else, regardless of title or position. I hope the crew at UM likes me as much as I like them, because they're stuck with me for the foreseeable long term future.

Cons

I have nothing to add here.

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