TruePosition Reviews

Pros

Good benefits and pay. Amazing %10 dollar for dollar 401K match. Very dynamic and challenging work environment. Very good, expensive and complex product. Lots of potential.

Cons

Layoffs are regular occurrence. No prior warnings given to employee before laying them off. The company hires overseas, while laying off experienced workers in US. Revenue numbers supersede everything else.

Advice to Senior Management

One can not build loyal base on deception. Saying one thing doing something else creates wrong impression for the company.

Pros

Schedules and work load were generally fair. Employees were easy to communicate with. Salaries and compensation were good. Benefits were good as well.

Cons

There was insufficient communication at times. Assignments were not tailored towards the unique skill sets of the employees. Unfortunately the firings and lay-offs were frequent, and often with little or no prior notice.

Pros

Good benefit package from the holding company Liberty Media, especially the 401(k) 10% matching and 100% vesting after 3 years is great.

Cons

Poor management; they pretend to listen to their employees but have their own plans. Growth opportunities for engineers are poor; senior engineers who built the system could not advance but principal and architect positions were created to bring in their own people.

Pros

salary, benefits, that is it

Cons

layoffs on and off, not worth

Advice to Senior Management

take care of your people

Pros

relatively ok work pressure
Good coworkers

Cons

lots of Office politics
Two offices competing with each other and employees gets screwed

Advice to Senior Management

Look for the future

Pros

The company does strive to hire smart people, and it shows when you talk with their employees. The location technology that forms the base of the company creates interesting, challenging work. I learned a lot working with some very smart people. Obviously a lot of work is with GSM and telecommunications networks, and work with complex systems which appeared to be complex from necessity. They seem to use Java, C++, and Perl and/or shell scripting in house depending on what level you were working. The primary goal was to keep the systems working consistently.

They had provided free dinners every Tuesday and Thursday to compensate for those who were working long hours on projects. They also made regular team outings as team building exercises. (The extent of these varied based on what team you were on. ) They were rapidly growing and profitable at that point, so check to see if this is still the case.

Cons

I got shifted between groups as part of reorganization, and due to a conflict in styles with my brand new manager I allowed myself to be laid off. This has no bearing on the company.

However, the company does has a history of misjudging it's employee base, and alternating between layoffs and hiring. When I left, they were trying to leave the start-up mind set, and were working on adjusting to the fact that they had near 500 employees. The majority of income is based off of their relationships with TMobile and ATT Wireless, so the relationships with those companies seem to lead to a lot of hirer level politics. (I initially had a good boss, so I was shielded from most of them, but I heard a lot about them from the team I was on.)

Advice to Senior Management

Figure out how to get some international deals, and improve the means of providing feedback from the developers who know the systems back to the management and customers who were making the requirements.

Pros

One of the few places in the Philadelphia area where software engineers can work on cutting-edge products w/o working on defense contracts. The business issues and work hours aside, TP has opportunities for engineers to make a big contribution on relatively interesting projects. Definitely not a shop where you're stuck doing boring business applications.

Cons

Lack of sales growth lead to low morale, despite the work being interesting for the most part. Project Management leadership had a slight tendency towards beating people up when things went late (often because of overly aggressive project goals and lack of training/experience for project leads). This does not often lead to motivated development teams.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce scope, increase quality. Realize there are good engineers who want to advance their careers, and others who need more work/life balance. Reward those looking to advance...don't punish the ones who need balance, as they are important contributors, too.