Elastic Path Reviews

- Seriously old technology stack with high technical debt makes agility near impossible. - An inability to make time to address basic difficulties in the product release process makes releasing things a traumatic chore. - The company's focus seems to be entirely on sales, not actual product development or implementations. - Hiring of executives and middle management who are poor cultural fit for the teams they end up managing. Seems like they hired a layer of management without beefing up the underlying teams in a parallel way. - The Toronto office was hired more or less unilaterally by a new executive with the Vancouver team having very little say in that expansion. - Getting anything done takes forever. I honestly don't think they're going to turn this around any time soon. After I initially the company, I left a more positive review, but a recent wave of firings in the company of key people seems to be motivating a greater wave of good people leaving as well. Competitors in the market are gaining traction. Things don't look so good. I can't recommend EP in their current state to a jobseeker so I came back to update my review. Also PS to anyone reading these: HR made it a "goal" this year to "focus on Glassdoor reviews" so.. I'd take it all with a pinch of salt.

- EP acquired a company to help move it to a SaaS platform, and that CEO ended up taking over the company and purging a lot of the core EP team for his people - Because of the shift to saas, delivery managers were out of work, so the company created a PMO with these people, who were, quite literally, some of the most useless and unhelpful people I've ever worked with. People that have never actually been in product development were now tasked with defining a product development process. All agility was lost with the addition of countless layers of process for the sake of process, and anyone that didn't buy into that was let go. - On the product side, new leadership sucked the life out of the product development team. All of the core leaders were outed or left, along with pretty much the entire product management team - New leadership team just didn't resonate with the team, and the heart and soul of EP is lost. New leaders came in and purged anyone that didn't immediately conform to new ideas. - I think the new CEO is a robot