Promethean World Reviews

2.8

33% would recommend to a friend

(198 total reviews)

Arthur Giterman

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20% positive business outlook

Promethean World has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 198 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Promethean World employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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198 reviews
5.0
29 Feb 2024

On campus

Recommend
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Pros

I will be 2 rounds 1st round will be hr who notice our communication skill and attitude and 2nd round will be technical Hr will ask questions related to domain and from resume

Cons

It was good but more tues questions are there to confuse ourselves

1.0
21 Apr 2017

Don't believe fake reviews...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

PTO, wear jeans, and a lot of good co-workers, some free meals

Cons

2016 was a terrible year. The entire culture and trust level changed among the entire office. The company was purchased by a Chinese company - owners have own purposes and want huge profit margins (want them to match their gaming companies margins in China); not the same industry or business. Past President totally about self-preservation for him and his friends; knee-jerk reactions, never enough attitude and negative style (even though told the best sales in 10 years according to him). Constant changes - quiet lay offs here and there all year; job descriptions constantly changing; people bailing ship left and right. Do not believe fake positive reviews (look at entire year and dates); this was not confined to one department only -- HR added these after the overall rating dropped. Marketing lost people and had people leave, Developers were laid off and jobs outsourced to India, Tech support was understaffed and lost people; inside Sales team was laid off (and very poor commission structures) - people were leaving in many departments or being let go ... the joke was ... " don't tell me you are leaving too"). Job descriptions constantly changing, pressure constantly on ... HR (people and culture) didn't care or couldn't do anything. The top exec was nice but distanced from the employees; a higher up colleague was not good at her job (did not care about employees or did not talk respectfully to or about employees; unprofessional for HR). Management was terrible - a few good people; but too many that were in bed with each other (not literally); history and buddy system for sure. Lots of self-preservation, escalated numbers; scrambling and ever changing expectations, constant pressure and negative styles ... and what's in it for me and how can we take advantage of people (get more for less). Pressure on software teams and other departments - lost all focus on quality, service and clients. Overall, poor management in general (starting at the top). Recently, hired new CEO and the President is gone - but I would not go to work here! Too unstable, too many changes still happening, owner and management are numbers driven not customer, product driven) ... so the wonderful culture that used to be Promethean is a thing of the past. Changes are not going in the direction I'd like.... there is no way customer service will not go down due to changes in purchasing, changes in production, changes in fees for software, service, closing our warehouse and going through vendors, etc. They are also moving corporate office to another state. Do your research!

1.0
1 Jul 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The talent level of the developers and software engineers at Promethean is very high. They have a grueling interview process and strive to hire only the "best" and most compatible with their culture. They prefer to hire people with Type A personalities who are often high-achieving "workaholics." So if you care about your work-life balance, this is definitely not the place for you to work. There is truly a peer-to-peer compassion in which people help each other during the work day.

Cons

Scope Creep. This is single–handedly the worst aspect of this company. If you are used to "Agile" then hold your horses. This is anything but. Management only cares about the quantity of stories, tasks and throughput in which the rate of production is delivered. Quality and actual need for the features being developed are not a primary concern. All urgent timelines are fabricated to consistently push hard with no real consideration to the quality of the delivered product. They prefer to hire people with Type A personalities who are often high-achieving "workaholics." So if you care about your work-life balance, this is definitely not the place for you to work. This often results in "whom-ever talks the loudest wins" syndrome. Please beware! Their entire technology stack is a huge mess. Basically it's a big bowl of “Spaghetti” code that is a result of their pace an desire to move fast. technical debt is a household name. The environment is one big open office floor plan. If you like your work space quiet to any degree, then you will very disappointed and more importantly very distracted. The future of the company doesn't look good. The Net Dragon overlords are pushing in a direction based on faster and not better. The HR department is awful. Very unprofessional.

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