Hypercom Reviews

I worked at Hypercom full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – career advancment opportunities, good people to work with,

Cons – management was pretty bad like most companies, but they tried to care!

Advice to Senior Management – Run it like you own it, not like you are there to rip it off.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Hypercom

Pros – good people in many international positions

Cons – Company was purchased by competitor

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Hypercom

Pros – The pay is very competitive for engineering. That's about all I can say, so I'm just filling extra words in here to meet the 20-word minimum.

Cons – The work environment is lousy: instead of offices or cubicles, they have a bullpen seating arrangement. It's very noisy, with overhead A/C units running all day, people talking, people walking by, etc., so it's impossible to concentrate on engineering work requiring thought and concentration.

Also, the communication between management and engineering staff is non-existent, unless there's an emergency. Roadmaps, product plans, etc. are never communicated except by rumor. There are zero staff meetings, communications meetings, etc. to keep employees aware of the company's direction, what products they'll be working on in the upcoming months, etc. Staff are never approached for their professional inputs into new products or how anything should be done.

Lastly, management for some reason is very reluctant to provide the computing resources needed to do proper software engineering.

Advice to Senior Management – Go to some well-run companies and learn how they run their businesses. Management at this company seems to have no clue. In other jobs I've had, my 2nd- and 3rd-level managers were on a first-name basis with me, even though I was a lowly engineer. At Hypercom, I've never even met them, much less talked to them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend