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Pros

The people are amazing here. it's like one big family. mostly young 20-30 year olds. There is also free (cold) breakfast, ping pong, pool table, foozeball, 60" TV, library and Wii room. Great vacation time, although skimped on the sick leave. Good medical benefits and 401k etc. in my experience, management cares about you. I've seen teams where this isn't the case, but my team is excellent and i'm sad to leave them.

Cons

It's a very flat company. There are 3 steps between me and the head of the company. And a lot of people have been here for 6+ years and have no intention of leaving, so moving up to management can be a challenge for the pure fact that there are no open positions. It's fairly easy to move around from team to team in linear moves, which is great for learning opportunities and building experience, but upward movement cant be a challenge. Also, the location use to be in Westwood, but now is in Ladera Heights bordering Inglewood. Not many lunch or happy hour options near by.

Advice to Senior Management

Look for key talent, and make sure you provide learning opportunities and a chance for career advancement.

Pros

fun people/coworkers
snacks, sodas, coffee machine

Cons

run by Experian
the floor is a ghost town
lack of innovation

Advice to Senior Management

Run the business as a separate entity, compensate well, run the business like its a tech business.

Pros

Great benefits package: Med, Dental, Vision, 401K w/match, free life insurance coverage
Kitchen - Starbucks and other fancy coffee machine, breakfast (bagels, cereal, yogurt, granola bars) and other snacks
Carpool/Public transit incentive
Early office close on Fridays for holiday weekends
Huge lounge area: Ping Pong, Foosball and Air Hockey tables, Huge HDTV with satellite, Wii room (no one uses)

Cons

Low compensation for industry and pathetic annual increases
Experian owned - very corporate, tons of red tape for every little thing
Managers are often powerless due to corporate
Broken, ill-maintained system tools/processes
A lot of training/use of proprietary tools that aren't applicable elsewhere
Low upward mobility and career development
Little communication between teams/depts.
Hosted Happy Hours/Holiday Parties have lessened and declined in quality
Few sick days given

Advice to Senior Management

Pay employees better and promote qualified talent or you'll keep losing good employees.

Pros

You'll love the set-up. The office is fun and expansive, the people are friendly and inviting.

Cons

Company is slow to innovate. Compensation for engineering talent below market (but improving).

Advice to Senior Management

Pay market wages and improve product innovation!

Pros

Easy to get your foot in the door
Recruiters poach from here

Cons

Dysfunctional senior management team
Owned by Experian

Advice to Senior Management

Stop worrying about your bonuses.

Pros

Good place to transition from entry level college grad to corporate worker.
Good for entry level experience.
Good place to help hone your programming skills.

Cons

Used to be tight cohesive company, now more fractured in between teams.
No upward mobility.
No real promotions available outside of the team you were hired in.
Compensation lacking compared to industry standard.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more incentives, then people might stay.

Pros

Flexibility and young atmosphere. Very laid back company culture with lots of snacks, though they use to be better

Cons

Very lateral and horizontal company. Upward mobility is limited and hinders professional development and maturity as a programmer.

Advice to Senior Management

Innovate and allow engineers to find outlets for their skillset or find projects that will at least exercise skills of empoyee engineers

Pros

- Smart, driven employees
- Great culture (friendly people, work hard, play hard mentality)
- Free soda machine and play room
- Certain teams had great organizational chemistry and work ethic; assisted other groups

Cons

- Lack of communication between departments
- Senior management not very accessible to employees
- Cross-departmental projects difficult to organize and complete

Advice to Senior Management

- Create more transparency between senior management and employees
- More emotional leadership from senior management will rally the company
- Need long-term strategy rather than short-term, immediate "goals"

Pros

Well i'll just bullet point this list
-Ok work environment
-Kitchen
-Depending on what department people are very cool
-Younger trending company
-no dress code
-compensation not great

Cons

and ill bullet point this list too.
-corporate work environment
-lots of people are unhappy
-no room for growth
-top management is not really the best
-transparency issues
-very little interdepartmental communication

Advice to Senior Management

make the atmosphere better for departments to mingle better. Will help productivity. Also maybe do more things to recognize employees for good work.

Pros

casual work environment/ pool table/ happy hour/ team lunches/ collegial young environment/ innovative company/ occasional holiday parties/ get to learn about dealing with clients and internet busniess

Cons

Lots of changes going on. Must really enjoy internet/ computers to like a job here.

Advice to Senior Management

None. Sr Management was competent