Better but not perfect - Anonymous employee Engine Yard Employee Review

3.0
24 Nov 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Relaxed atmosphere, smart people. The company has cleared house in the last while eliminating a lot of the excess management and the change of CEO will do the company wonders but there are still execs there slowing everything down. The move to containers and ditching the new platform are all good moves but should have been done a year ago if not longer. Things are moving in the right direction but it might be too late.

Cons

Might be too relaxed at times. Huge turnaround, can't seem to keep employees, firing other employees and asking them to come back a month later. Little to no HR, projects that go off on month long tangents before being cancelled. Project managers come and go so often lots of things left behind and left unfinished.

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5.0
13 Jan 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I loved working here- fast paced and forward thinking company with great leadership.

Cons

The PaaS space has some competition.

4.0
12 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The new CEO is actually really great. Engine Yard needed this. The choices he's made are ones that should have been made a long time ago. I think he also pays attention to what we're good it, which has always been a gripe of mine. He's learning what we're able to do well and trying to build on that. He wants to keep our big customers and figure out how to make our platform work for the people that need it most. Company culture has rebounded a bit since the layoffs. Hiring is resuming with focus on engineering (yay).

Cons

When you deal with so many people's core businesses, security is very tight. Though it's expected, it can be cumbersome on a day to day basis. The time needed to accomplish fixes of underlying issues is still hard to come by. Company perks have been cut back recently, but this is to be expected. The agile methodology that has been adopted recently can be cumbersome and overly specific at times. Allow for engineering creativity in solving challenges rather than exhausting the challenge before it gets to the engineers.

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