nFocus Solutions Reviews

Oh man, where do I start? 1. The owner makes very irrational decisions, seemingly on a whim, and then she'll forget she made them and blame you for the outcome. 2. It's not unusual for you to be aggressively questioned about everything and frequently told that what you're doing is "not smart." 3. I was once told a kindergartner could do my job. 4. I've also been told that I'm super overpaid (I was actually under market salary.) 5. If you try to talk to HR about what you're experiencing (and what you're experiencing is being yelled at, cursed at, and receiving 12+ emails demanding things on Thanksgiving day) the answer you'll get is "there's a reason your position is hard to keep filled." 6. 40% turnover. 7. The same time that money is being cut everywhere - no funds spend on office supplies, begging vendors for major discounts, salaries cut, losing majorly need resources for our jobs - thousands and thousands are being spent on no-return tradeshows and company vacations. 8. People have been promised raises, vacation time, etc. on paper and then not given it. 9. Clients are really mad at the company because we promise big things and then either under-deliver, severely delay delivering or flat out don't deliver. 10. It's extremely common to devote a lot of time to a high-demand project, then mid-stream be asked where something tiny is and, when explaining where you're time has been spent, you'll then be yelled at for not having the tiny thing done because the big thing no longer matters suddenly. And that's just all I can remember off the top of my head - I'm sure there's more. Ignore the positive reviews - I was once asked to fake positive reviews on here for the company but refused because it's unethical - and listen to this instead. Many people who have been in the industry for years and even decades have said "I've never been in a place like this before" and that's not said positively. Take that to heart.

From the highly restrictive office culture (no cellphones, business attire every day, obsessive paranoia about things like thumb drives) to the aversion to such fundamental safety nets as unit testing and gated check ins to a near absence of process (the term "cowboy coding" had to have been made for nFocus!!) to the opaque and top-heavy management to the 94 projects in one solution all referencing each other and sharing a single 'packages' folder despite the fact that there are individual products made up out of those projects to horrible architectural decisions on the part of the head of development (three different data access methods, abstractions of abstractions of abstractions, IoC containers used to spin up monolithic classes, etc, etc), to manual builds and deployments, to ZERO devops monitoring to a cavalier disregard of service and domain boundaries (for example...consuming applications making service calls into a broker API sometimes while directly calling the dll out of expediency at other times)...there really is very little good I have to say about the work environment. A stagnant, suffocating and poorly managed swamp where passion and curiosity go to die.