Rubicon Project Reviews

This place is an embodiment of William Golding’s dystopian novel, “Lord of the Flies.” If you don’t drink the Kool Aid you will be spewed out fast. The company is held hostage by an over glorified engineering culture populated by a bunch of arrogant, outright nasty, immature, irresponsible, lazy, egotistical, loud yet low-skilled bullies playing playground politics. In fact, the whole place operates on playground politics. There is a hight employee churn rate. Not an environment that fosters or supports innovative/ creative thought and practice.There is no loyalty shown from management toward employees who have put in a lot of sweat equity and gone over and above expected, everyday duties to make things happen. There is no credit given to people who have changed things dramatically for the better. More likely another department or employee will take credit for it. In spite of pumped-up slogan slinging by the CEO, there is an utter lack of leadership. Their execution blows and their software is mediocre to sub-standard.  There is a lot of lip-service given to “team-work” but there is really none, and even though the CEO continues to beat the innovation drum, they categorically reject any out-of-the-box perspective.

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