Balanced perspective on working at Talent Plus - Anonymous employee Talent Plus Employee Review

The business is evolving and growing in great ways. Leaders have a clear vision and are running a strong business. My colleagues and clients are great to work with, and make the work more valuable, meaningful and impactful.

More clarity and faster action. Too much leeway for leaders (managers to top leaders) to talk and plentiful opportunities to make them stand up and put up, or step aside. Teamwork needs to get stronger inside of the business, but think these are growing pains.

The individual contributors are talented and genuinely care about the product. You’ll get broad exposure across a lot of technologies and if you’re self-motivated, you can learn a lot. Some of the work is genuinely interesting.

Executive leadership is effectively controlled by one person: the head of research, who is married to the president. That dynamic shapes every major decision in ways that are never explained to anyone. The result is a company with no coherent technology strategy, no real plan for growth, and five consecutive years of declining revenue. The technology department is not respected, and it shows at every level. This is a SaaS company that doesn’t seem to know it’s a SaaS company. Executive leadership doesn’t understand their own technology, doesn’t understand what engineers actually do, and has no idea how to support them. The dev team is small, expected to maintain multiple applications simultaneously with no dedicated ownership, and consistently deprioritized when it matters. Leadership instability is a serious problem. Two Directors of Technology were let go during my time there. The most recent one was fired after three months, while actively pushing for things the team desperately needed: better QA processes, improved test coverage, addressing tech debt, and actually listening to developers. Those were the right calls. He was shown the door anyway. This is what happens when incompetent leadership is threatened by good judgment and innovative thinking. The company talks a lot about transparency but delivers none of it. Decisions about priorities, personnel, and direction happen behind closed doors with no explanation given. Compensation is low and raises are minimal. The company recruits new grads for junior roles and then keeps them there. There is no meaningful path upward. If you’re early in your career you might pick up some useful skills here. But don’t expect to grow, don’t expect fair compensation, and don’t expect leadership to have a real plan.