FareHarbor Reviews

- Deceptive: Tread lightly is the best advice I can give those interested in FareHarbor. If you take a look back at their reviews there are some nasty write ups about their lies and dishonesty. I was guilty myself of writing a 5 star review when I just started working here but as time progressed FareHarbor showed its true colors. I was deceived at first about the sugar coated glory that is FareHarbor. They will excite you about everything while you are in training but once training is over the whip starts cracking. - Unethical: They demand obscene hours of their employees because they do not properly staff to handle their numbers. You will be forced by guilt to stay late nights and work on weekends to launch a company that will serve you no compensation for your efforts. The only reason they pay you for those extra hours is because they are legally obligated. All I can say is don't expect an ounce of appreciation or compensation for going above and beyond, your low salary is deemed enough. There are people here that have poured their hearts and souls into this company for years and have not seen more than a pat on the back and a free cup of coffee for their efforts. You can spend a year here working 65+ hour weeks and not see a penny more for your time. They will tell you it is a 'privilege' to work here. Best of all, if they call you on a Saturday to work, you better cancel your plans and leap for joy because if you don't you will be deemed a 'bad fit'. They will viciously guilt trip you into feeling obligated to drop everything outside of work. Their is no sense of work life balance. Last thing, don't expect to ever have a lunch break. You will find yourself eating at your desk everyday, if you have time to eat. - Poorly Managed: Their is no leadership here. When a leadership 'role' is offered all the existing employees cower in fear because nobody want to be put on the chopping block. They know that it is setup for failure. They then have to hire externally and do the same sugar coating to get them in the door. FareHarbor is owned and operated by one family. All these family members dominate the leadership rolls of all sectors of the company. The thought of having your voice and ideas heard in regards to change is non existent. Let alone don't expect to advance in your career here because until a family member gets fired (highly unlikely) there will be no room for growth. For now you will be a busy body on a conveyer line that runs too fast for it to function properly. - No Sense of Direction: Communication here is non existent. Where meetings would be useful there are none. People have no idea where they stand as of results in their roles. You have no person to talk to in regards to tracking your hard work. The 'meetings' that are had are typically just a pointless conversation with a basket full of swear words and a 'Go Team' leaving everyone wondering, "what was that about?" There is no form of mentoring or career progression here. BE CAREFUL WITH THESE GUYS...

No one in management has any idea how to run a company. There is no communication, no metrics for growth, no feedback, and often outright dishonesty from the CEO, Lawrence Hester. Under different leadership, FH could be an amazing company. Unfortunately, Lawrence is unfit to run a company (the failure of his previous company should be the first hint), and is borderline-unfit to interact with other human beings. He is dishonest, incompetent, vindictive, and cruel. He is convinced of his own intelligence, despite there being no evidence to support the idea that his intellect is anything above middling. But here's the important part: when negative Glassdoor reviews started coming in, Lawrence made a lot of employees go write positive reviews. Obviously you can't force employees to do something like that, but his reputation for vindictiveness is known throughout the company--and most of the Colorado startup community--and employees feared that he would fire them if they didn't write good reviews to balance out all of the honest ones. Bottom line: the software is excellent, the development team is highly-skilled, but the company is run by a madman, and he will almost certainly run it right into the ground.