The Glory Days are Over - Anonymous employee Lavalife Employee Review

Its a fun and challenging market. Alot of change occuring providing alot of market opportunities. Web, voice, advertising, magazines and cell phone products Lavalife has alot of cool things going on. Never a dull moment with very unusual "customer needs" to build for. Fun diverse group of people from all walks of life and experiences.

Stuck with a 20 year old culture that is risk averse. Status quo is always preferred to experimenting. You are only as good as your last month's results. CEO has her favourites and ignores the rest - so if you happen to be in the "it" group - anything's possible - people, budget and tech team attention. If not... forget any radical projects that might really improve the company... Since the Top Down communication is really horrible its very hard to appreciate if this favourtism is to the companies benefit or not.

Neat industry, lots of challenges in different dating verticals (voice,web, mobile). US, Canadian and Australian markets offer plenty of challenges for a person. Strong developer team with good foundations that keeps it all together. Last couple years has seen a big cultural / management shift in company. So far results are less than stellar and morale is heading south fast. Good people are leaving, layoffs include personal grudges so people are getting fed up. No compensation, bonus, incentives applied to keep team cohesive - poor communication down to the troops from Senior Mgmt. Lack of true leaders. Bottomline: Neat industry, cool challenges - ruined by poor senior mgmt.

Management - if you were part of the "in crowd" you could walk on water. If you weren't blessed with this - your issues / proposals / suggestions would fall on deaf ears. Only a handful of management actually grasp the business details - but are not in a position to fix the problems with the company.