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2.0
14 Apr 2015
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Pros

Good, downtown location Nice co-workers Some folks play poker/foosball/games during lunch in break room

Cons

Salaries are low - they're on the cheap side. Unless you're an all-star talent (and there's only 2-3 of them in development) you'll get cheap treatment, and maybe not even then. Meanwhile, all but one of the partners are retired (5 out of 6 or so), so maybe that's where the profits are going. Who knows. Finances are non-transparent. Arrogant management. A lot of the programming managers are promoted from within, which would seem good ideally, but if you you're there long enough, you notice a lot of self-promotion goes on aimed at impressing the CEO. And for them, that's all they really need to worry about. It's not what you do on a daily basis that matters - nobody notices that stuff - if a tree falls in the woods....

2.0
7 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

So much beer. Many great people in the company. Performance tracking was pretty cool. They offer solid paternal leave to both men and women which is one thing they are exceptional in.

Cons

Not as relaxed as they claim to be. Spreading tobs of misinformation to employees to keep them in line. You can see one person's claim that 40-45k is reasonable for experienced software devs because they have work-life balance. This was just over 1/2 of the median software dev compensation in this city, and despite management's claims, median software devs don't work more than 40 hours/week, especially in Portland. They liked to so this gs like claim they offered "free" health insurance, "except for a small fee". Their commitmwnt to doublespeak is commendable. I found it hard to take my vacation days. Despite claiming to be a laid back company, they were very touchy about a lot of topics. Some of the upper management had a tendency to use manipulative interpersonal tactics if they weren't getting their way. Very political. Overall the place was filled with self promotion rhetoric to make their programmers think that they had it great when they were in reality locking themselves in to a substandard career path more and more every day.

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