Quorum Software Reviews

First, long hours. The Q treats all work on a by the hour basis, and they expect all employees to clock 9 hours a day. 9 billable hours (time spent at work truly working) is extremely demanding when you're paid a fixed salary. Combine 9 hours with a commute to downtown, lunch break, stepping out of the office to make a personal call, etc, and you can kiss your free time good bye. Second, unreasonable project management. Quorum sells news features to clients based on an "estimate", which is a rough project outline, and number of hours that the project will take to finish. While I understand that having a way to record what fraction of your time was spent on different tasks is important for estimating schedules and billing clients, having a fixed number of hours in which to do software development is terrible. Computer code is a complex logic puzzle, and any additions to that puzzle requires both logic and creativity. There are many ways to solve a problem, and sometimes those solutions manifest quickly and organically, and sometimes they're a long slog of ideas that didn't pan out. Putting a hard timer over such work is effectively setting employees up to fail. Third, inconsistent management. Due to the long hours, and often unreasonable projects, employee turn over is high. The result is that the management team is not always the best leaders and most skilled developers, but often whoever's survived the longest. Large differences in management styles is common, and can cause "office space" like moments where I had 3 different "bosses" on a given project, all telling me slightly different things. My time at Q was heavily marred by projects with unrealistic timelines and expectations. Despite scoring "greatly exceeds expectations" on my year end reviews, I was ultimately laid off, and was told the decision was due to "performance issues". I'm not sure how to rectify those two facts.

- Management is always all up in your Kool-Aid - Do you really want to work in this environment? - Culture is - Sit down, shut up, work, repeat! Seriously ask yourself about working here! - Difficult to make friends here when they hire people that have the personality of a card board. - This is not a tech company! It's a database company. You use SQL a lot: just like the 80's and 90's, and 2000's and apparently 2018! You don't use any new tools or get to work on new technology. - Every year 20% to 30% of their whole workforce leaves the company. EVERY YEAR! That statistic speaks for itself!