Proceed with extreme caution - Anonymous employee Talent Plus Employee Review

- Talent Plus offers genuinely strong products and solutions that are interesting to learn about and work with. The company has built a solid reputation around research and science, and the team responsible for that work is highly knowledgeable and thoughtful. - The organization works with impressive clients across a variety of industries, creating opportunities to contribute to meaningful and engaging projects. - Colleagues are generally thoughtful, collaborative and committed to the work. Many tenured team members bring deep knowledge and real passion for the mission. - If you come in curious and open to learning, and take the time to build relationships across teams, it can be a very rewarding place to work. - Good benefits, a flexible hybrid work culture and strong office resources. - There are opportunities to build a strong professional network and develop meaningful relationships across industries.

- Performance management can be inconsistent at times, and lower performers may remain in roles longer than they should. - Because the organization values tradition and long-standing practices, change can sometimes move slowly. - Talent Plus is somewhat of a quiet leader in its space, and the market awareness does not always reflect the strength of the solutions.

The individual contributors are talented and genuinely care about the product. You’ll get broad exposure across a lot of technologies and if you’re self-motivated, you can learn a lot. Some of the work is genuinely interesting.

Executive leadership is effectively controlled by one person: the head of research, who is married to the president. That dynamic shapes every major decision in ways that are never explained to anyone. The result is a company with no coherent technology strategy, no real plan for growth, and five consecutive years of declining revenue. The technology department is not respected, and it shows at every level. This is a SaaS company that doesn’t seem to know it’s a SaaS company. Executive leadership doesn’t understand their own technology, doesn’t understand what engineers actually do, and has no idea how to support them. The dev team is small, expected to maintain multiple applications simultaneously with no dedicated ownership, and consistently deprioritized when it matters. Leadership instability is a serious problem. Two Directors of Technology were let go during my time there. The most recent one was fired after three months, while actively pushing for things the team desperately needed: better QA processes, improved test coverage, addressing tech debt, and actually listening to developers. Those were the right calls. He was shown the door anyway. This is what happens when incompetent leadership is threatened by good judgment and innovative thinking. The company talks a lot about transparency but delivers none of it. Decisions about priorities, personnel, and direction happen behind closed doors with no explanation given. Compensation is low and raises are minimal. The company recruits new grads for junior roles and then keeps them there. There is no meaningful path upward. If you’re early in your career you might pick up some useful skills here. But don’t expect to grow, don’t expect fair compensation, and don’t expect leadership to have a real plan.