Avoid this company - Director Live365 Employee Review

Great people. Great work environment. Great place to work if you are motivated and want more than just a job.

Pay could be higher than it is.

Mostly good, friendly people, pleasant offices, flexible hours, and the company provides snacks and beverages. It's a fairly easy commute to the Foster City office from SF or the peninsula, and parking is free.

Where to start? Worst of all, compensation is pretty dismal for the tech sector and for the Bay Area. But what makes it worse is that employees who do choose to stay at Live365 for many years never see themselves advance, and instead go years without a single raise. But maybe compensation would be higher and advancement would be a possibility if Live365 had any products making a solid profit. The core Live365 product is poorly branded, poorly positioned, and hasn't really changed since 1999. When ideas for other, more innovative products come along, Live365 may give them a chance, but quickly drains their lifeblood through abysmal management and a lack of direction from the top. While upper management have no idea what they're doing, at least they seem to mean well. However, Live365 also seems to attract a small but vocal number of employees who like to play office politics, instigate battles between workgroups, and generally sow unrest. Despite the majority of the employees being good-natured and friendly, there are enough rotten eggs to make working at Live365 feel like a high school cafeteria at least 60% of the time.