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Neverware

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Great people, great product, great culture - Product Manager Neverware Employee Review

5.0
20 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Engagement here is incredible. That comes as no surprise, considering the combination of a great product, an exciting startup atmosphere, and amazing people. The product, CloudReady, is simple, secure, fast, and eco-friendly, in an industry where bloatware and over-consumption seem to dominate. The people here are cooperative, smart yet willing to learn, and fun to be around. As mentioned in other reviews, transparency is genuinely a goal here. It goes both ways: management is open with financials, general strategy, and such, while concerns can be raised, and often are, by anybody who feels the need.

Cons

There's not much diversity here, even for tech standards. I get that it's not easy for a tech startup, but perhaps this is an opportunity. I'm not asking for diversity just for the sake of diversity (although that would be good, too). It would be both a precursor to, and result of inclusivity which would give us a better shot at raising performance even higher and make life and work more interesting.

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Neverware Response
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Thank you for your thoughts. I share your view that our strengths are in our people and our product. Open, honest and frequent communications between all team members is the foundation for the growth of the organization. I also share your frustration with the lack of diversity. We are not making progress fast enough - no excuses. We will work harder in 2019 to broaden our reach with candidates for all roles.

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5.0
4 Nov 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good environment. Excellent members. Right Business Strategy.

Cons

Too Far away from home.

5.0
18 Aug 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fair work environment. Salaries all visible from within the company. Flexibility to mold your position to something that fits you (for example I started six years ago as a server admin and moved to Software Engineering a few years back.) Leadership genuinely cares about your professional growth and wants to help you find niches that fit 'you'. Work life balance is fantastic, with the company actively promoting that you take time for yourself. Neverware has gone above and beyond to make sure all of their employees feel comfortable through the current pandemic. No one has been let go, the office has moved to a full remote work set-up and management is very open about a plan to return to office work, but only when everyone is comfortable with it. Management is very transparent about the company's plans and financial state which is great since nothing is ever a surprise.

Cons

Due to being a pretty small scale company there have been times where we've had to take pay cuts during financial hardships (for example, the early stages of the pandemic.) Though both times this has happened all employees have been paid back in full all income lost after the company found it's footing. Even though employees are generally setup to try to carve out a career path for themselves, sometimes the available paths can be very unclear or even non-existent. Lack of job overlap means that certain employees may not have team members they can fall back on as much as others (specifically on the engineering team,) though we're currently trying to hire more roles to fix that issue so this may not be a problem come 2021.

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