Quake Global – “Avoid at all costs...worse decision I ever made”

Pros

A great core group of people with a lot of great and interesting personalities. Interesting product. Modified 9 80 schedule where everyone works 4 9 hour days, and 1 4 hour day on Fridays. Lots of happy hours and lunches due to people leaving the company every month.  The minimal salary helps pay for some of the bills.

Cons

Where to begin...
Lack of direction from Senior Management. Constant demotivation by the CEO anytime there is a company meeting. Never truly addressing the issues with upper management. Instead they come up with ways to skirt around the real problems. Not taking the management courses which are truly aimed at 2 "managers" CTO/CEO seriously. Due to the lack of direction, the experience that you will gain here is that this is the worse experience you ever had. A revolving door mentality which is further proven by the 35-40% turnover rate. Never truly thinking actions through and acting purely on emotion and whatever the current hot issue of the day/week/month is. Not enough mid level managers to disperse information and assist with managing employees. A general sense of mistrust towards everyone to be able to do their jobs correctly. Setting up unrealistic goals and timelines while lambasting everyone because "we failed." Terrible Health Plans for anyone with a family or is over a certain age. Pay is extremely poor at the bottom 10th percentile, and never truly addressed.

Overall lesson DO NOT COME HERE!!!

Advice to Senior Management

The CEO and CTO need to concentrate on what their job titles entail, not micromanaging every day-to-day actions of every employee.  Let HR do their job and not handcuff them to whatever the CEO's desires. Get more mid-level managers to compensate for the CEO/CTO lack of managerial skills. The way it stands this will always be a small company and never grow.