Instem Reviews

3.4

62% would recommend to a friend

(100 total reviews)

Phil Reason

61% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Instem has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 100 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Instem 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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100 reviews
1.0
15 Dec 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working times Employees bring a lots of cake in the "kitchen"

Cons

Stagnant work conditions Quite open office - no one talks - useless meetings - all emails Inflexible development cycle Devs spend 50% their time writing test scripts in word...

4.0
27 Dec 2018

Times are a changin’

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I’ve been with the company for well over a decade, and there has never been so many new ideas, fresh talent and growing diversity. New leadership seems to have been given the rope they need to make real impact. Company culture continues to be a big family despite the reality bite of a large restructure and round a layoffs in 2016. Generous benefits package and flexible working.

Cons

Poor communication from the top down despite efforts to work on it. Some ineffective middle management.

2.0
21 Sept 2020
Recommend
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Pros

+ Everyone is social and amicable + The work isn't particularly tedious or boring and the skills you can learn can be used elsewhere + The work itself is flexible and not too demanding

Cons

- Management is very single-minded, mainly about sales - There's a lot of inefficiency going through the place, any time someone has tried to improve the flow or request resources have been shut down by upper management and it never goes anywhere afterward. - The people in charge see everyone below them as objects/tools, only to do our jobs and nothing else. - There's an obvious amount of bias towards outsourcing / contractors, there's little faith on the 'main team' in the company itself. - Pay rates are very middle-of-the-road, there's no competitive edge with working for a different company for potentially better rates, the company 'benefits' don't really make up the difference either. - It feels like the company has been on a downward spiral for some time, despite starting off on a strong footing, things have changed for the worse. - For a technology company, there's a lot of antiquated tech or refusal to keep up with the ever-marching pace of tech in the industry.

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