TeleNav Reviews

Pros

-Flexibility within position (hours, variety of tasks)
-Friendly, helpful people

Cons

-Not enough managers to lead teams well, and very few good managers.
-Communication about team goals is very poor.

Advice to Senior Management

Advice to senior management: hire some good managers.
Advice to middle management: listen to your teams, take some management classes.

Pros

good location and flexible working time

Cons

too much not necessary meetings

Advice to Senior Management

a lot of time was wasted during meetings.

Pros

Nice people; A lot of opportunities to learn and improve yourself.
The company is in the good area: mobile apps.

Cons

Too frequent releases.
Too much overtime work.
The company is still in the transition from a small startup to a public company.

Advice to Senior Management

All departments should work on the same page. The management should work in a more consistant and clearer way to develop.

Pros

1. co-workers are friendly and willing to help
2. supervisor provides opportunities based on your own interests

Cons

1. The company culture is a mix of Chinese and American

Pros

Friendly people
Flexible work hours
You can always find workarounds but it also means when ppl ask for workarounds, you need to do them a favor

Cons

as chaotic as it can be, not all the teams are on the same page for release processes
and it changes all the time without public announcement to the whole company
no career ladder
finance even review test cases when they have no technical background.
It just seems odd to me and never heard other companies operate like that

Advice to Senior Management

create career ladder
fix the release process once and for all

Pros

1. Great people, helpful and understanding. Easily accessible.
2. If you like to take initiative, there are a lot of possibilities to explore here and you get the credit for you work.
3. Some of the best engineering minds in bay area work here.

Cons

The company is mid size right now and expanding fast. This means there is some chaos in management and some miscommunication occurs.
- Responsibilities are not clearly defined.
- Late Work hours, which might be a good thing for some

Pros

A good platform for self motivated, innovative and hard working Engineers.
Lots of mobile technologies.
A few very smart people.

Cons

Product Management team is weak.
Lack of effective Engineering process.

Advice to Senior Management

Some middle managers are incompetent.

Pros

It's good to work with smart, young, energized engineers
Lots of Innovations in the company
The technology is good and the company is a leader in the industry.

Cons

Salary is lower than the industry, stock option is worthless, Management team lacks of experience, Micro-management and disorganized, lacks the view of company's future.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire a good management team from CEO down to first line managers. Give some good trainings to both management team and employees.

Pros

fast grow company with unknown potential for employees

Cons

employees needs to be friends of the boss

Advice to Senior Management

decision making process should not be based on personal relationship/feelings.

Pros

Good friendly people to work with. Free food. There is nothing else to say. I wish there was more about this company to say. Hope it will get better

Cons

Management team is not good. No feather opportunity to grow professionally. Work overtime a lot. No time for personal life. No respect from the management team for your long hours and hard work. Constant misscomunication

Advice to Senior Management

Respect hard working people, reward them. Let employees know that you care about them. Let them grow professionally and people wont leave.