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Motivis Learning Systems Reviews

3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)

43% positive business outlook

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14 reviews
2.0
21 Dec 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The vision and mission of the company are good. Most people at Motivis are talented and hardworking. They believe in the mission at hand. They want to deliver something exceptional to students. There's a lot of promise for the company, based on the market and on the amount of talent under 1 roof. People can bring their pets to work.

Cons

The biggest con of working for Motivis is that it's like being in high school. Management have all been friends since long before Motivis was founded. They bring their personal lives into the office, they play favorites with each other, and they're mean to people who aren't in their group. If you're the type of employee who wants to be proactive so they can fit into the culture better or do better work, constructive criticism is not available--even if you ask for it. Management is either nice to your face and trash talks you behind your back OR they trash talk you right to your face in the open office while other employees watch it unfold, uncomfortably. People's political views are fodder for public humiliation. Employees who don't like to drink are forced to drink or shamed for not drinking.

2.0
27 Aug 2018
Recommend
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Pros

"Unlimited" pto, flexible schedule, the ability to define your own work. Coworkers are generally chill. Its easy to simply 'get by' if you don't care about your work.

Cons

First of all, compensation is garbage, even for the area. Especially for software developers. The money given simply does not make up for the amount of work. There is no transparency and management has no clue of what they're doing. You will be told something is a priority one day, only to have it dropped the next. Clients will be made impossible promises and you will only be informed after the deadline. The product we are selling doesn't exist, and you will be expected to build whatever the client asked for, with no support, on a rapidly crumbling tech base. You can expect no support, and no help. You will bring up issues and they will never be addressed. A depressing miasma has set in where everyone knows we're doomed, because we're going to continue to sell smoke, and promise the impossible. There is no engineering culture. Unit tests are considered optional, as is documentation. Junior developers are placed at the helm of projects they have no insight into, and then there is surprise and recrimination when said project doesn't work. There is extreme unprofessionalism in the name of 'remaining lean', there is no HR, and no way to deal with the old-boys club that runs the place. Unless this is your first gig and you're comfortable being underpaid, you can do a lot better. Stress levels through the ceiling as deadlines become increasingly ridiculous (and then are immediately ignored)

1.0
23 Aug 2017

Vision and Leadership do not equate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Powerful story behind the mission for this platform -- we really believe we can change education.

Cons

Too many chiefs and the culture is unethical at best, hostile at worst and it is all condoned by the executive team -- you couldn't make up some of the stuff that is accepted and encouraged. Too many cliques, especially at the management level. Caught between trying to build a revolutionary product with a market that is still in its infancy and trying to generate recurring revenue in order to validate the investment from Southern New Hampshire University.

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