Intelius Reviews

Pros

Dynamic, fast paced work environment. Good work life balance

Cons

Public perception of the Company and CEO is not great

Advice to Senior Management

Improve public perception of the company and CEO

Pros

- Very low stress level, typical 9 - 5 office hours. Rarely need to work overtime.
- Easy to survive, too many slackers around this company, some so-called engineers and dev managers don't even know the basics. Which means no matter you are a fresh grad or entry level engineer, you will find yourself better than a lot of people here.

Cons

- Salary and benefit are way below industry standard
- No room to grow, never haven't anyone get prompted during my time. However, they prompted a bunch of people because most talented hard workers left in the past few months.
- Expect to work with some noobs, this company still has some smart, hard working people, but you can count them with one hand. If you are unfortunate enough to work with one of the dev manager who only knows cowboy coding, good luck.
- Work with very legacy, hard to maintain code, while not being allowed to change anything as they are your manager's babies.
- Bad reputation, virtually no one knows Intelius and it has pretty bad reputation in Wall Street. IPO is simply a joke.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the good guys and get rid of the "older, wiser" boys.

Pros

The compensation is fair but would not attach any value to option grants. Was slated to go public but that is unlikley now.

Cons

Lack of direction from leadership.

Pros

Overall the company is filled with hard working individuals who are great at their jobs. However, the executive team and upper management are disorganized and only concerned about the bottom line. The company has the potential to make great products but they are more concerned with tricking their customer base and making sub-par products as quickly as possible.

Cons

The executive and management team want to create products that do not work, are designed with technologies and UIs from the 90s and want it all done "yesterday." Working throughout the company-it was all disorganized and ran by individuals with little expertise and knowledge. Directors may have been working for 5 years and lead whole product and business groups...how does that work?

There is rarely any room the advance, and if you do the only thing that changes is your title and you work longer hours. Expect to take a $10,000 pay cut and bonuses average to 1-2% and are not given on what you provided to the company but more on favoritism. So if you are not in the "boys" club there is no room for advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Create products that users actually want and need. Hire experienced employees and not newly graduated individuals. Your sub-standard products and "advertising" that is more trickery say a lot about the company. Clean up your image and more people would want to actually work there.

Most importantly, pay your employees industry standard salaries and they'll stay longer than a year.

Pros

Fast paced, highly profitable business. Highly competent executive management staff.

Cons

Business market is limited to public records and background checks. Not much room for market expansion into different markets beyond public records and background checks.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the employees to help boost company morale

Pros

Super entrepreneurial environment and growing fast. Management definitely gives you the resources to succeed and values smart, creative people. Leader in the space by far.

Cons

If you like micromanaging its not the place for you. Definitely an environment that you need to create your own destiny within.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to have more company meetings and bring people up to speed on the overall vision, more internal communication is needed too in general.

Pros

Intelius has some of the most talented people working. I would have to say that the group of people is the best reason to work for Intelius (not to mention the comprehensive medical benefits). Employees including Senior management are always there to help and teach when needed. It's an awesome place to grow as a person and your career.

Cons

It's not really a downside but work pace is very dynamic and have to move very fast on projects and work items. It may be downside for some people used to working at big companies that takes months to roll out products and services.

Advice to Senior Management

Get more people involved in decision making.

Pros

They seem to have money to throw around. Facilities are nice.

Cons

Very shady business that is suspicious of new employees as they are always scared of the next lawsuit. People are a very strange bunch.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop doing shady things and skirting the law. Senior management does not seem to have any scruples at all.

Pros

The pay is OK. The people that work there are nice. On Friday's they have a Tiki Bar with beer.

Cons

No internet, no email, no break room that has a sink in it, they do not promote from within, they don't even post their open positions on their website, most of their customers are pissed off. Their product is way over priced and not that accurate. You are micro-managed and treated like a POS when you work in the customer service department.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't eat yellow snow.