Had potential... - Software Architect Beyond, Inc. Employee Review

1.0
3 May 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work / Family life balance. Good location (until they move everyone to the warehouse district).

Cons

As far as IT this company is a sinking ship. They recently fired two Vice presidents. Replaced their CTO. In IT they fired the lead architect. 3 other architects have left. 3 Development directors have left. Numerous senior developers have left. Right now it is a giant political mess. And they have dragged their feet at re hiring these positions. Up to this point there has been little promotion from with in. Now they are hiring to replace just 2 of all those positions. There were 25 that applied. The company is making a move to out sourcing to both China and India for some pieces of their development (testing the waters).

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Cons

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Pros

Fast paced environment with LOTS of hands-on experience with many different tools. The people are the reason to stay, lots of smart and caring people, managers, and leaders towards the bottom of the food chain.

Cons

Upper Management has completely destroyed this company and gutted it. In my several years at the company, communication is as poor as it could be. Bonuses are promised and then not followed up on. RIFs happen far too frequently. It is abundantly clear that this company does NOT care about it's employees, and at the moment is almost seems like they are trying as hard as they can to get people to quit so they don't have to pay severances before acquiring more companies and moving headquarters to Texas. The culture in the days of Overstock was incredible, it made people excited about being able to work there. Now people are hanging on by threads, large teams are now carried on the backs of just 1-2 people without additional pay as we see co-workers get laid off left and right. It is not sustainable. Important things are being missed because there are not enough people to do the work, which will end up biting the company in the butt for compliance and finance reasons.

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