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Don't let the name change fool you, this is Imprezzio - Anonymous employee Mivation Employee Review

2.0

1 Aug 2019

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

Solid location just outside the downtown core, free parking, very nice office building, flexible work schedules (but only if you have the right boss), there WAS plenty of PTO, fantastic co-workers, Coke Freestyle machine...

Cons

Unfortunately, the company has been steadily declining since 2017, when a long standing contract was not renewed. This caused a huge knee-jerk reaction, when they laid off a significant portion of the workforce early 2018, which destroyed morale. Over the rest of the year, many decent employees jumped ship, including former CEO Russell Page. During year-end 2018, it was announced that there would be no raises (including cost-of-living adjustments), bonuses would take the form of gift cards to our choice of store, and the PTO policy was dramatically reduced. The second round of layoffs in early 2019 sent most of the rest of the decent employees scrambling for literally any other job. The company "Mivation" was spun off from Imprezzio early 2019, as a last-ditch effort to shake off the bad press associated with the name.

Mivation Response

Thank you for taking the time to review Mivation and provide your perspective. I believe that many of your comments are directly related to Mivation's sister company, which is also owned by DaRK Capital, our holding company. Mivation is the rebranded, DBA name for Racing Snail, Inc. Mivation (Racing Snail) has been in business for 15 years. We have a strong track record of long-standing success for our customers, with a 74% referral rate from users of the Racing Snail product. We released our second product, Leaderboard Legends earlier this year. Racing Snail has been in market for more than 14 years and is currently used by more than 25,000 insurance agency users. Mivation has had no layoffs or turnover for more than 15 months. We have increased our staff by approximately 30% in the past four months due to the exciting growth opportunities we are experiencing. We did choose to hire a handful of former Imprezzio employees to join the Mivation team. Related to your comments regarding raises, bonuses and PTO, we work hard to be sure that our employees are competitively compensated through salary, benefits and opportunity. We believe our incredibly low employee turnover rate is testimony to accomplishing that goal, and we are committed to continuing to reward our employees with opportunities for career advancement. We are thrilled about the recent growth opportunities we are experiencing. We are working hard to build a culture that takes pride in developing exceptional software that our clients love to use. Jeff Brown, CEO, Mivation

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5.0

29 Jan 2024

Project coordinator

Recommend

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Pros

Executives are involved in the day-to-day operation Everyone's opinion matters, not just Leadership Growth Focused company Willing to take calculated risks for big rewards Culture and moral matter

Cons

Still growing Wear many 'hats'

1.0

16 Aug 2019

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

Decent location with free parking and good facilities

Cons

Mivation values its image over anything resembling a well-designed and engineered product, and that simple fact permeates the culture and attitudes of this company. Expect the sales and marketing folks to rule the roost here, with your success dependent on how comfortable you are being a sycophant to the managers and leaders in charge of said teams. You can actually see this in action in the reviews below with several five star reviews over a two-three day period, after being directed to do so by management. Furthermore do not be fooled by the statements within; while they are indeed separate companies, both belong to the same parent company (DaRK Capital), and Mivation was actually formed in June 2019 out of the remains of a failed sales department at Imprezzio (after having not managed to sell a single thing over two years). Any of the reviews below that mention working for Mivation for multiple years are demonstrably false, and the issues that plagued Imprezzio have simply changed names in a desperate attempt to fool customers and prospective employees. If you are looking for a company with a well-engineered and designed product, meticulously maintained and improved upon; one which has a culture of independence, improvement, and team-building, speaks for itself, I would look elsewhere. However, if you are comfortable with the above and can handle being a sales and image driven company above all else, with little thought to the planning/testing/implementation of a GOOD product, Mivation is the company for you.

Mivation Response

Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. As you point out in your review, Mivation and Imprezzio are both owned by DaRK Capital. While we are owned by the same holding company, we are two different entities, with different customer focuses, different software applications and different leadership, technical and management teams. Mivation is the rebranded, DBA name for Racing Snail, Inc. Mivation (Racing Snail) has been in business for 15 years. We have a strong track record of long-standing success for our customers, with a 74% referral rate from users of the Racing Snail product. Our team decided to rebrand the company name from Racing Snail to Mivation due to the release of an additional software product, Leaderboard Legends along with our primary software, Racing Snail. We found that having the same company name as one of our core product names was confusing to our customers. Leaderboard Legends is currently in the marketplace, with results that have exceeded both our customers’ and our expectations. In addition to the release of Leaderboard Legends, we are now launching a new release of our flagship product, Racing Snail. Racing Snail has been in market for more than 14 years and is currently used by more than 25,000 insurance agency users. Mivation (Racing Snail, Inc.) has had no turnover for more than 15 months. We have increased our staff by approximately 30% in the past four months due to the exciting growth opportunities we are experiencing. We did choose to hire a handful of former Imprezzio employees in addition to new staff that has not worked for a DaRK Capital company in the past. We are thrilled about the recent growth opportunities we are experiencing. Change is a constant in our company and we know that isn’t for everyone. We are working hard to build a culture that takes pride in developing exceptional software that our clients love to use. Jeff Brown, CEO, Mivation

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