Zend Technologies Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Zend Technologies

Pros – Open communication, relax environment, career:life balance

Cons – lack of strategic thinking, not a risk taker, always looking for short term results vs. long term

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Zend Technologies

Pros – They pay a very good salary, and have a good benefits package. They also have a very flexible work schedule, which is required given half of the company is in California, and half in Israel.

Cons – Zend internally laid off a number of people and expected all the remaining to pick up the slack. In turn this meant that everyone was over tasked and any complaint about the number of hours would be met with a response about how many hours your manager was having to work themselves.

Zend also, for being a company built on top of an open source project, has become very disconnected from the community that exists around PHP.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize that your employees are being overworked (including yourself) and find a real solution other than longer days. Also embrace and reconnect with the PHP community, listen to what they have to say, and don't dismiss it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Zend Technologies

Pros – I worked with some great people at Zend and worked on some very interesting projects. They really do have a core of good people distributed throughout the company.

Cons – Unfortunately, almost all of the interesting people I worked with were not in upper management. There was a ceiling, above which you had to be hired in and you have to be known by one of the VC companies that control the board. This means that there is rarely an infusion of new ideas into the C/VP level, it's just more of the same that you see at every start up.

Advice to Senior Management – Delegate, decide what you want to do, spend more time developing products people want instead of letting marketing decide what products need to be released. Also, understand that no matter what your deadline is, the programmers there have a right to a life. You don't have the right to demand more than 40 hours from any employee, regardless of how important the project is to the company's well being.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Zend Technologies as an intern for less than a year

Pros – were a very good company.

Cons – not as they used to be

Advice to Senior Management – no idea anymore

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company