31 May 2012
Dysfunctional Mess - Stay Clear of This Place
Anonymous employee
Rivet Software Reviews
2.8
27% would recommend to a friend
Madelaine Rohan
65% approve of CEO
25% positive business outlook
Rivet Software has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 49 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Rivet Software employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).
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49 reviews
2.0
23 Apr 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
The best part of working at Rivet is the decent pay and the wonderful people. The company has a lot of happy hours, which makes things more bearable.
Cons
Where should I start? I dont have hours to write about the cons, but I will say that I would not with my worst enemy to work at Rivet. They work you to death with no consideration of your personal life. Its a running joke amongst the employees that your life ends the day you got hired. If they dont like you personally, you will not go anywhere in this company.
1.0
29 Sept 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
A lot of experience is housed at Rivet. You work next to folks that ought to be in a corner office at some prestigious company. Laid back attitude (folks sit on exercise balls, ride razor scooters, play foosball, has a soda fountain machine, occasional happy hours, no real dress code, etc.). A good place for recent graduates to get a start. Rivet extends offers to folks most wouldn't.
Cons
The hardest part of this review is not wasting the rest of my life trying to explain all the reasons Rivet should fail. Management claims the employees are the true assets of the company. Which in many ways is true. Nothing gets done without the experience and drive of the workforce. Rivet in the most effective, and efficient perhaps, manner drives away the greatest talent by running its employees into the ground. Yes, the work is challenging and keeps you on your toes. After working at Rivet, you would consider a 9-5 job a complete bore. We regularly work 80 to 90 hour weeks, for a month at a time. Then when we go back to normal 40 hour weeks, management expects us to pat them all on the back and be appreciative for the 'lax' hours. There is honestly no getting ahead here. You put in the extra time and effort, not to be appreciated, but so such behavior will become a future standard. I really don't know how else to put this, Rivet drains the life out of its employees. The reviews that state you have to know management to get ahead, is a joke. You have to either sleep with management or be a blood relation, to get anywhere. If you don't fit that criteria, you could be one of the greatest employees of this company, respected by clients and close coworkers, and yet when you find yourself riding an elevator with your direct supervisor chances are he or she will ask how your first day is going! Management is clueless as to what happens on the compliance floor, and especially who even works in the department that makes up 90% of the company. My advise to those researching Rivet, DON'T. This is a dead end job that I guarantee you will hate yourself for. Consider Rivet only as a last resort.
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