SimSpace Reviews

Product vision comes from one founder, who disregards the input of (and doesn't value) product and engineering professionals. Despite the claimed startup environment, owners/founders cling to their military and academic backgrounds, where orders come from above and all staff members are expected to fall in line. Boston staff have more access to (and more respect from) the most influential founder, especially if they participate in the party culture after hours. All leadership messaging focuses on IPO, rather than goals for the software, services, or customer/partner outcomes. Marketing, sales, and product are tasked with retrofitting founder vision into something marketable - rather than working from a sound strategy that cascades into understandable tactics.

* Very low quality code base considering the quality of the engineers involved. Years of mistakes and tech debt piled on top of each other, resulting in poor architecture, cascading performance problems, and low morale. * Terrible leadership. Completely lacking in empathy and care for their employees. Long hours, high stress, and below average salaries. Some directorate-level members of leadership can be outright hostile when receiving any form of criticism, no matter how carefully or politely it is phrased. * Silly, obtuse "woke" corporate culture that panders to ideologues and vapid trends. They'd rather lecture you on "equity" (not equality) than make any real attempt at fixing actual problems at the company. * Office politics are the primary factor that determines who climbs the ladder. This is not a culture of meritocracy. It's entirely about who you know and how you play ball. * Overall, a terrible place to work if you value your own sanity and happiness from day to day, especially if you're a Veteran. SimSpace is chummy with some of the worst actors in the cyber security sector and the defense contractor/military industrial complex space. They care about you only in terms of what they can extract from you and no more. Profit-over-people is the name of the game.