Nowcom Reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(189 total reviews)

Jay Kamdar

68% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Nowcom has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 189 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nowcom employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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189 reviews
1.0
13 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary (they will give your asking) Over Time Pay 6am - 9am flexible time-in Pre-employment Bonus and referral multiple technologies used for testing automation team is moving forward with Cypress

Cons

One of the worst HR team, there is a 1-2 days turnaround time for employee inquiry, most of the time, they will not answer your query at all. HR time is based on the US even though the team is following PST, which is a weird explanation as to why most of them are in graveyard shift. So where is the HR for the PH office? Payroll is 1-3 days delayed after cut off, pay slip is 3-5 days delayed after cut off. Kanban release style (weekly releases), which was not given a straight forward answer during the interview. Management basically just fills the empty positions, not really putting any thought if the applicant is the right fit for that team. Thus skill set was not properly used by the employee No available B.A. thus user stories are empty, developers are now controlling what the testing of the QA will be. Business requirements keeps getting add in-between sprint thus development is never really done for anything. Since there is no BA, no formal discussions area available thus feature or User stories has always a gap, development is always adding up, so basically features are not properly developed No ticket responsibility, no one is really responsible on any tickets (especially User Story, Feature) QA’s are the one making the User Stories, it’s difficult to say know where the QA will asked the Acceptance Criteria since they are the ones that created the ticket in the first place. Developers give little to half baked information about anything, unless you include a lead on a call, they basically give you information one at a time, making testing difficult and time management low. Developers are so sure if they are performing Unit testing on their items To many testing environment, (3 testing environments), thus it is no longer sure if the developers, are actually performing any unit testing since they can just release the updates on the next testing environment There are User Stories that have no information at all, thus you are only provided a notepad, when asking for assistance or help, even the one who created the User Story ticket do not know what it is for and what is the issue is, Outdated QA test plan especially for new hires, yet they are deliberately pronouncing that it is up to date, yet changes are done every time there is KT session Have a “If it is not broken why fix it” mentality Bug have testcase on them, when asked no definite answer provided, they can’t say (it is being used for formality by the automation team.) Weekly releases, since release happens every week, and Acceptance Criteria is always added on the User Story within the sprint, the point of pushing or rushing the item to be released makes no sense, the item is incomplete, does not work properly sometimes at all, so why rush it? User’s can’t use it, management have no ide what’s it’s for even on the demo’s they are pushing it but at the end of it, it is still incomplete? Why rush in the first place? It has been 2 years of the pandemic, still no definite solutions for the Work From Home, if it’s going to be permanent or hybrid

1.0
20 Jan 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are absolutely NO pros.

Cons

ONLY six paid holidays a year. Lots of favoritism here..including supervisors in relationships with employees, on the same team, in the same office, promotions given to relatives by upper management. HR is a joke. Salary is extremely low for the amount of production expected. The goals are absolutely unobtainable - around 85-90% of the sales staff aren't meeting quota. Every two weeks there is a new-hire class, this alone should make you wonder - why is that? Do yourself a favor, do NOT waste your time here - you will dread coming into work every day. Oh, I forgot to mention that men have a VERY strict dress code whereas the females do not. Why are we wearing ties when we are making calls/answering phones in a call center? What year is it...oh yeah, 2020. No parking - only management and the IT staff get to park in the structure.

1.0
11 Feb 2016

Very Bad, keep away

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Prepare to work 80 hrs a week n get paid only for 40 hrs. You should be able to work/pretend to work with out asking any KT, it does not matter how many bugs go to production. They dont care for product quality, but if you ask any questions that management can not answer then they get upset and start humiliating you. Do not believe the 5star reviews which are given by management.

Cons

Do not join here unless you are related to someone in the company. Get to know the company politics first, then talk to anyone. Every point said in cons in other reviews are correct. Racist, prejudiced, and unreasonable management. The most arrogant & unapproachable HR As the other reviewer said I would not even want my enemy to join here. Its a hell.

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Nowcom Response
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Thank you for your review, we appreciate that you took the time to provide us with feedback. It seems like there were communication issues during your time in Nowcom and we apologize that you were not satisfied with your experience with us. Nowcom is comprised of employees from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and we do value each individual’s contributions to our diversity. We constantly strive to have open communication between managers and their employees, and we will continue to ensure that remains a cornerstone of Nowcom’s philosophy.
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