Great place to work - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso DecisionGrid

This startup has gone under, but I want to leave a review to counter the negative review for this company and its author's disparaging of the people who worked there. The individual who left the negative review is directly responsible for the failure of the company, making poor technical choices that left the product with insufficient flexibility to adapt to the needs of the market. This individual was very sour when he was justifiably let go. I was not hired until after he left, but the entire team unequivocally voiced their pleasure at their improved work environment after his departure, and how much more productive they felt. The CEO and CTO were two of the best I've worked for in this industry, and I would enthusiastically work for either again in the future.

While I worked there, we were constantly behind the curve in getting productive things accomplished.

Good place if you see the workplace as an arena for duplicity, scheming, and intra-staff power plays. Not a place for makers. A place for takers.

Toxic environment. Berating and degrading of staff. Ex-military cowboys. Command and control management. Death marches and no-win situations for product and technology people while marketing and sales enjoy decreased stress and privileges. Extreme immaturity in software development approach. Primitive testosterone culture. Anti-intellect. Running off of staff that isn't willing to comply. CEO Sean Forbes has stacked the management staff with like-minded dishonest, unprincipled bullies. Cut release schedule by 75%, ran the development team ragged, then ran them off once the beta shipped. No expression of gratitude from management to staff after months of break-neck long hours - except for constant degradation from CTO Steve Madere until staffers would quit. Within a month and a half of Medere's arrival, all but the most junior member of the development staff had left, were forced out, or were on the way out.