Software Engineer - Software Engineer Reflektion Employee Review

5.0
9 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Everyone in Reflektion was like family. Everyone was easy to work with and coordinate with. It's great to learn from everyone. The technology you work with in Reflektion are an in-demand technology stack in the Silicon Valley. What I learned and technology I worked with in Reflektion has helped me tremendously in my current job. I've definitely learned to work with many technologies in depth. Reflektion is willing to provide resources for experiments. Being that Reflektion is a start-up, you'll be taking ownership of several projects and will wear multiple hats including project management, which could be a good and bad thing. Good because you'll learn A LOT. Bad because, as expected, it'll be a lot of work. The benefits are great. You can see the benefits on their web page. They also provide lunch and dinner. Who doesn't like free lunch and dinner? Beautiful office location in San Mateo. Close to the 92. Great location to take a walk. Close to Bridgepointe Plaza which included BJs, Target, Starbucks, Chipotle, Panda Express. Every Thursday, there were food trucks in the parking lot. Every Summer and Christmas time, they have an office outing like BBQ and scavenger hunt at Golden Gate Park, or going to a fancy restaurant in downtown San Mateo. Just like in every company, there have been times when the company was not doing so well. However, I feel the management did a good job of changing their strategy and regaining momentum.

Cons

This could be a good or bad thing depending on your perspective. Considering that Reflektion is a start-up, you'll need to work about 9 - 10 hours a day to keep up with the work load. I enjoyed it because I learned a lot in a short time. Just to give you perspective: prior to Reflektion, I worked in a big company, so I was in a small team working on a small portion of the code. What I learned in 6 months in my prior job, I learned in 1 week at Reflektion.

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5.0
30 Oct 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They had a Great technology

Cons

A bit of a mess

5.0
26 Aug 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You will get to know and learn about a lot of new technologies that are on demand nowadays. The work culture is quite flexible and you can try and experiment a lot of things, which I liked very much. The company is lead by a group of talented individuals who are bringing on more and more investments and expanding the company at a very fast space. For recreation , we had a ping pong table and free food :). There were team outings once in a month :).. People here are super helpful. The CTO has a great vision for the company and you will find yourself very much aligned with his vision.

Cons

There is somewhat lack of communication between various teams of the company and over-dependency on certain individuals. It would be really great if there is a well-defined plan to switch people between teams . This way a person's knowledge is not limited to his / her team only but he would be diligent enough to work across teams.

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