Smart People, Interesting Technology, with Occasional Layoffs - Software Engineer TruePosition Employee Review

4.0
14 Jan 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company does strive to hire smart people, and it shows when you talk with their employees. The location technology that forms the base of the company creates interesting, challenging work. I learned a lot working with some very smart people. Obviously a lot of work is with GSM and telecommunications networks, and work with complex systems which appeared to be complex from necessity. They seem to use Java, C++, and Perl and/or shell scripting in house depending on what level you were working. The primary goal was to keep the systems working consistently. They had provided free dinners every Tuesday and Thursday to compensate for those who were working long hours on projects. They also made regular team outings as team building exercises. (The extent of these varied based on what team you were on. ) They were rapidly growing and profitable at that point, so check to see if this is still the case.

Cons

I got shifted between groups as part of reorganization, and due to a conflict in styles with my brand new manager I allowed myself to be laid off. This has no bearing on the company. However, the company does has a history of misjudging it's employee base, and alternating between layoffs and hiring. When I left, they were trying to leave the start-up mind set, and were working on adjusting to the fact that they had near 500 employees. The majority of income is based off of their relationships with TMobile and ATT Wireless, so the relationships with those companies seem to lead to a lot of hirer level politics. (I initially had a good boss, so I was shielded from most of them, but I heard a lot about them from the team I was on.)

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5.0
30 Apr 2020
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Pros

Compensation, Innovation / Technology, 401k match, flexible hours

Cons

Long hours, weekend work, mandate driven buisness.

2.0
27 Oct 2013
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very good compensation and benefits for this region of the country. Interesting and challenging work.

Cons

Management team. Liberty Media ownership. Liberty Media operates as an investment banker, treating TruePosition as an annuity from its maintenance contracts with AT&T and T-Mobile. There's little understanding of the technology and how to leverage it in new markets, as demonstrated by allowing itself to invest and lose tens of millions in a failed attempt to go from a niche safety and security 911 location firm to a consumer electronics firm. And entrusting this failure to executives with no background in that field.

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