NexTag – “Big Company Stifleness in a Small Company”

Pros

Company is making money. Providing a pay check, nothing more. May be the location is not too far away for some people.

Cons

Excessive micromanagement and monitoring. They force everyone to track their time in bugs. Time spent fixing a bug? Put that in the bug. Time spent solving a customer's problem? Open a new bug and put in the time. Writing a document? Put the time in a bug. Spending time in answering emails? Open a bug and add the time spent. Attending a meeting? Put those times in a bug. In other words, they don't trust you and want to know everything you spend time on.

Mandatory work hour starts at 10am. Hello, this is the Silicon Valley. But then in light of other policies, it's not surprising.

I agree with another reviewer's sentiment that they don't give positive feedback, only negative. It doesn't matter how much time and effort you spent in solving a customer's problem, or how gone beyond the call of duty to fix some problems, the first thing they said is not good job but who caused the problem. Is it Sales, OPS, QA, or Engineering causing the problem? Praises are exceedingly rare. Blames are often.

The codeline is a mess. You want a textbook example of bad codes, you got it in Nextag. People are fighting with the codeline to get feature out and often it's the source of delay.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't know what to say but this site requires some minimum verbiage. Get some management training. The people managing there clearly need them.