Steer clear of this program - Anonymous employee Crossover for Work Employee Review

1.0
11 Jul 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great Money. This is all they even publish about themselves.

Cons

40 hours a week. This is never 40. Please consider it as active keyboard and mouse movement for 40 hours and screenshots of your work being taken every minute. If you don't its idle time and you will need to put in more hours and are bound to get desk injuries. You cannot interact with your team on skype, email, with such minimal interaction with colleagues which is monitored, try to have a social life outside before you become a loner. Let me take you through the interview process. 1. Take a XCAT (how does the scoring work, we dont know) 2. Provide a 5 minute audio about yourself which covers 5 questions 3. Take a quick 10 question subject matter test 4. An essay test with 5 question that possibly covers end to end of any broad subject Finance, Technology, Engineering etc 5. An interview with SVP who will be your advocate and put you on to the marketplace. This interview can easily go upto 90 minutes, and most likely are the ones who you see on the Crossover website Once this step is complete, is when the real test begins. The about steps take about 1 month but after is when the drama unfolds. Based off your skills and interview you will have atleast a minimum of 5-8 rounds of more interviews for 30 minutes. Some SVP's don't even bother to attend the interview and keep you waiting. You will not be able to follow up as you have no connect with them. You are at their mercy. When an offer is made and you take it, they will ask you on how soon you can join. A week ahead of joining, you will have to read up their copious notes on the WSPro tools and techniques, which will be driving force for your contract with them. Take 12-14 tests and ensure you are at 100% else you will not be able onboard. Then you have a 1 month remote bootcamp for whatever role you are on. Which they pay you for. The bootcamp has nothing to do with the role or the subject you are a pro at. Its a bootcamp to make you love WSPro. Every week make an average of 7 submissions, on each topic,,, like Check in chats, Gemba walks, ZBT, . A week into the role another XCAT, based off which you could be asked to stay or leave. At the end of 4 weeks, another written exam, and then a panel interview.. By now you are wondering what is the actual job coz you have done nothing but looked at some ridiculous tool which is really not the base for actual work or talent.

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Cons

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Crossover for Work Response
11mo
Hey, thanks for the stellar review!
2.0
30 Jul 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Crossover does require work from home. For many, this is a good thing and, for me, helped productivity. The salary is good, but depending upon your country's tax situation it might not be as good as it seems on the surface.

Cons

Where do I start? I tried to be objective with my 2-star rating; Crossover isn't unethical or stealing from their employees or anything like that. However, for a seasoned professional, be warned... I joined in one of the Very High Dollar executive-level positions being driven by their desire to acquire 50+ companies in the near term. I'm in the US. As such (and I knew this going in), the tax consequences for being a contractor are non-trivial. There's also the consideration that you must fund any perks yourself - healthcare, retirement, etc. While the salary is generous enough to do that, it's not as shiny as it seems on the surface. Your mileage may vary depending upon your home country. What I really disliked: Constant tracking/ justification of work stream. Seriously. As others have pointed out, it's difficult to actually *get* credit for a full work week without working extra. Especially in some of the higher-level, more 'creative' positions such as architect, product management, etc. there's minimal or no opportunity to review or think over things. For me, I work in bursts followed by small distractions in which I'm running the problems in the background of my thoughts. A variety of coworkers and management in my history have almost universally commented about the volume of good work I produce. Even my peers at Crossover had no problem with the quantity or quality of my production. However, their tracking software and systems simply don't credit anything other than linear, constant "work". This was bad for me, resulting in me working extra, reworking things as I attempting to change my processes, "faking" it, or simply working longer to attempt to make my hours. I also felt bad for some of the more junior or "factory" positions. It really is tracked by the minute, with lots of incentive to find "problems" with productivity. This is really a thinly-veiled method of wringing blood out of a turnip, by finding flaws or gaps and essentially docking pay. Yeah, the salaries are good but the amount of ancillary work that goes into making "real" hours is awful, and I felt like a chump contributing to it. I had to quit for my sanity.

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Crossover for Work Response
7y
We appreciate your review. Our wages are paid in USD, so it's not going to be as competitive in high tech markets like San Francisco or Boston in the United States where software development is ultra-competitive. However, wages for the same jobs are very competitive in other US cities and outside the US. Sometimes these wages can be 5-6x the local average. Our business model is unique and isn't for everyone. We aren't trying to be like everyone else. The future of work is being redefined. We pride ourselves in being a pioneer in this new paradigm. If you want to know more about this work model, you can read about it here: https://medium.com/@crossoverforwork/the-factory-model-enabling-massive-scale-across-business-functions-98b18ad574f8
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