22 Oct 2019
Modus Group Reviews
48% would recommend to a friend
Brandon Johnson
66% approve of CEO
57% positive business outlook
Modus Group has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Modus Group 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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21 reviews
28 Sept 2015
Modus Group Response
10yI can only assume that you worked with Modus in a time from late 2014 to early 2015. We really only started employing software developers, directly, within that timeframe. Prior to that, 100% of our work was outsourced to other companies.
I genuinely have to apologize for your experience as we started to make that transition from outsource to "in-source" development work. We were significantly under-staffed. As a result, there was a domino effect of negativity. Projects lacked organization. Developers were over-worked and under-appreciated. Stress level was high. It was bad.
I recognized this at the time and took some pretty significant steps to get us out of that hole. We have more than 3X the staff in development than we did when (I assume) you worked here. I have bolstered the internal team with additional outsourced teams. Yet, my long term goal is to have everyone in house. We have professional project managers. We have seasoned system architects. I reallocated a huge amount of our resources to rebuilding the processes and procedure.
I genuinely believe that if any current developer was asked, the outlook would be far different.
I never asked anyone to write positive reviews. Modus is a pretty flat company. I'm the CEO, and started the company with my business partner from scratch. There are about 3 other people in management. There was no directive from me, and I really doubt any of the managers pushed employees to write positive reviews..
I agree, some of the reviews are "over the top". My assumption is that certain happy employees, tried to offset negative reviews by writing overly positive reviews.
Modus is not perfect. It is a work in progress. I have made huge efforts in creating a nicer work environment. I built benefits and education programs that I think rival companies 100X larger than us. We have implemented monthly all hands calls. I personally meet one-on-one with employees, almost every week, to try and get direct feedback.
It has come a long way in a short period of time. There will always be room for improvement.
Once again, I apologize for your negative experience. I hope that you have managed to find a path in your career that is fulfilling and brings you happiness.
Brandon Johnson
4 Jul 2015
Modus Group Response
10yThis falls pretty much within the same timing as the other reviews with the same outlook. Modus went through a period of time (first half of 2015) where our sales opportunities significantly outpaced our scale. As a result of that, development teams were overworked, stress was high, and most of the people working in that group felt under appreciated.
It was a genuine problem. Yet, it is a problem that was addressed and we have taken big steps to repair the situation.
A lot of that extra workload has been picked up by contractors as we hire direct staff. Ultimately, we want to find direct staff to do all of our development work. However, it takes time to build a team. We are hiring multiple people each month, and that trend will continue through the rest of the year.
I am sorry you had such a mediocre experience with Modus. I like to think that we learned a lot from that time. I feel that most of the current people on the development team are pretty happy with their jobs now.
Thanks.
Brandon Johnson
