Portside (US) Reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

Alek Vernitsky

47% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

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3.0
25 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

friendly culture, timely salary, flexible hours mostly WFH, and supportive managers. Good for freshers as there is more scope for moving forward

Cons

However, poor job security, low salary hikes, lack of promotions and minimal benefits

1.0
25 Jul 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The actual devs I worked with were cool, smart, helpful, and friendly people. I wish I could have met them under different circumstances. Flexible remote hours. Salary wasn't too shabby. The interview process was quite pleasant in the moment (even if it was all a facade, and completely different from actually working there).

Cons

Management is more toxic than a nuclear test site. Tickets are assigned and progress evaluated at breakneck rate by people who don't code and don't know the technical blockers, yet expect a continuous high volume of delivery from everyone all the time. On a small dev team, the turnover rate in one year was 50%, between people not getting through probation, being fired for performance, and having had enough and quitting. This is an absurdly high number and should tell you all you need to know. How'd my exit go? I booked one day off for a family member's health issue, and the director wanted to talk about it. A normal human would start this conversation with "Is everything okay with your loved one?". This guy leads with "What is impact of family emergency on performance?", aggressively goes into a guilty-until-proven-innocent shoot-first-ask-questions-later inquisition on what I've accomplished, makes vague accusations that he can't quantify or qualify, and demands "100% time and focus on work from now on". This 10 minute absolutely unhinged interaction was without exaggeration the most insulted and disrespected I have ever been in my adult life, and is not something any person with a modicum of self-respect would find acceptable, so I quit with zero regrets. Even returning the laptop was bonkers, and was an entire extra unpaid day of back-and-forth with HR figuring out the logistics and having one problem after another. Every other company makes this part easy and frictionless because they just want their stuff back and understand the exiting employee has no more stake in the matter. Unless you like being burned out, gaslighted, abused, straight up threatened, told to abandon everything in your life for the sake of pErFoRmAnCe, and then continue to have your time wasted even after you quit, do yourself a solid and stay far away.

3.0
30 Oct 2023

Need Better Leadership and Less Acquisitions

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited PTO Remote Competitive Salary

Cons

Micromanagement Leadership Disconnected No HR

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