Really solid company, just has a few weird little habits. - Senior Software Engineer Xplor Technologies Employee Review

4.0
3 Apr 2026
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Pros

Direct Impact: Mid-sized environment where technical decisions have a visible effect on the product. Balanced Pace: Offers the agility of a startup with the stability and structured benefits of a larger firm. Modern Stack: Opportunity to work with a contemporary tech stack and help define development standards. Predictable Growth: Clear visibility into annual compensation cycles, bonuses, and merit increases. Strong Collaboration: Lean team structures allow for quick alignment between engineering, design, and product.

Cons

Technical Debt: High-velocity releases can lead to a backlog of "fast-follow" tasks and cleanup. Resource Pressures: Small teams often mean balancing core milestones with shifting secondary priorities. Scaling Friction: As the company matures its internal processes, there can be temporary "growing pains." Soft Skills Required: Senior roles involve significant direct navigation of technical disagreements and team dynamics.

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5.0
28 Apr 2025
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Love working remote, Lots of support.

Cons

I have not one negative thing to say.

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1.0
7 Mar 2026
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Explor Ever since Explor was purchased by a PE firm, every aspect of the company to the most granular detail has effectively gone up in flames. For anyone who needs context, PE firms are parasites that steal exorbitant amounts of money from the companies they buy out - and then they have 26 year old matcha drinking ‘financial associates’ in some high rise in NYC make pivotal business decisions that negatively affect hundreds of employees’ lives all because they learned in an MBA class that making the ‘costs’ line in the Excel spreadsheet go down would make the ‘profit’ line go up. The first ‘strategic’ business decision made was to cut down on software developers (to make the ‘profit’ line go up in Excel), which has resulted in a WORSE product - then they hiked the price on customers (Again, to make the ‘profit’ line go up in Excel) which as anyone would have expected, enraged ALL our customers. The resultant employees who didn’t abruptly leave are now tormented daily with more and more ignoramus ‘strategic’ business decisions and treated like ants that a child is playfully burning alive with a magnifying glass. If you want to be treated with any human dignity whatsoever, Explor will not be a good fit for you. However, if you want every day at work to feel like you are a participant in the Stanford Prison Experiment while simultaneously having to take calls at all hours from every customer who wont stop asking “Why does the software I pay money for to run my business no longer work”, Explor will be the perfect future employer for you to take that big next step in your career.

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