Locus Technologies Reviews

The CEO created a fake LinkedIn profile for a Marketing director to try to make the company look more legitimate. He chose an attractive photo of a woman to be the profile picture to increase hits and attention to the fake profile. He also created a customer contact in the employee address book to legitimize her. The CEO fired an employee because a deal did not go through, even though the strained relationship was directly because of the CEO’s meddling. The company explicitly requested to no longer discuss business with the CEO, and instead worked with 2 other employees. The CEO was bitter and fired one of the employees because of this. One time a salesperson started and then quit within 4 hours. Apparently, during the interview process, upper management consistently overstated the sales and commission the salesperson would make. The company brags about having women in upper management, but these women are often ignored. The company president is very unprofessional and talks trash about other employees at company events and lunches. It's very uncomfortable. He is very out of touch with his employees. The company consistently signs up for too many projects for employees to reasonably complete. This causes deadlines to consistently get pushed out, and for Locus to have strained relationships with many of its customers. Locus constantly brags about their regulatory certification work, but since they take on so many projects, certain employees were forced to cut corners to complete everything by the deadline. The product is very buggy, and not fully built out. The team misconstrues this information to potential customers by claiming that they have applications built out and can complete them within a month’s time. This is untrue as most applications are only partially completed. The company has a blame culture. This makes it so no one accepts responsibility any more than is required. People do not help each other because they don’t want to take on more work. It's a very toxic and depressing work environment. Every employee is chronically underpaid. The only reason this company is able to survive is due to its niche product. The office and facility is in need of repairs.

I observed weekly to daily developer panic attacks, no clear goals, and no positive reinforcement. Morale was almost universally low. Management was wholly responsible. The development team was incredibly dedicated. There was rampant scope creep and at times it felt like a bad joke. The code base is bad. The direction for development is very unclear. I think management created one of the most strangely hostile environments I have ever witnessed.