WeatherBug Reviews

I worked at WeatherBug

Pros – Get to work on multiple projects and take the lead on some of them
You will work with some great, friendly people

Cons – Unnecessary stress with last minute projects
Company direction is confusing and changes constantly
Unrealistic expectations and priorities

Advice to Senior Management – Let the workers work and stop meddling
Quit placing blame and start pointing the finger at yourself

I have been working at WeatherBug full-time

Pros – I have grown both personally and professionally. Career growth opportunities are available to those who work hard. Work schedule is appealing, and I have always been able to take requested vacation time. Pay and benefits are fine.

Overall environment is professional.

Cons – Corporate culture is frustrating. Internal Tools either don't exist or have been broken for more than a year. Not enough people to get necessary work done. Plans are rarely executed to completion on time. Say one thing, do another... very ADD place to work. Promise change, but still waiting for it to happen. Poor cross-department communication. No follow-up or oversight in many cases.

Employees can't count on a commitment to excellence. High-level managers refuse to get rid of problem employees. Lower-level managers have little to no power, and suffer when upper managers refuse to improve the available talent.

Originally hoped it would be long-term career destination, but have reached growth ceiling. Upward move is unlikely any time soon, and given current corporate culture not appealing. I am working too hard to not be rewarded with a better working environment (Tools, Better talent to work with, better commitment across the board).

Advice to Senior Management – Be more people-oriented and less profit-oriented. Stop saying something is "unacceptable" only to let it happen again and again and again. Be publicly accountable at the company meetings. Show more commitment to product excellence. Flagship enterprise weather product is rifled with bugs that make the company look bad. Hire a FTE Software Engineer to fix them before it's too late!

Don't promise things that you can't deliver, or aren't committed to delivering. There's a lot of double talk and dancing. Just be honest.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at WeatherBug full-time

Pros – Average benefit, smart IT people,Generous Personal Time off,$3000 - $5000 paid training each year

Cons – Senior management wanedt to reform everyday but messed up very often,No long term thinking/goals by upper management.Lack of communication between departments many complaints each other

Advice to Senior Management – Be communicative to employees on floor

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at WeatherBug full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – I have been with the company for quite a while, and totally enjoyed the previous years back with the bug. The people I'd worked with were great. It was once family oriented teams and niches, which it was like being back at school but thing always seem to work in ways for the better. All technology team always shared a common goal, get the goal done with quality, but management puts a twist on that. You will definitively learn a lot from this company, which you will need to figure things out quick.

Cons – From the past years, things has change for the worst.

Company view: changes every year, the only that doesn't change is making money. There's no such thing of QOS, only what can be made from the projects. Everything is a rush job where quality take a toll and support of the project becomes a nightmare to manage.

From the technology point of view: Everything is down to cost saving and even if is taking down system . Upper management are pushing buttons without acknowledging the people that work on the system day in and day out to keep the system up and running. The blame still has finger pointed to the employees. Lots of lack of communication between management and the employees.

Management: Upper management lacks respect for their employees. Middle management does not have much say into things where they are pretty much Pinocchio without a soul. They are being used as a buffer of course but all order are coming from the top. Remember the word contradictory, sadistic and machismo. That the picture of upper tech management. Voices and opinion are often ignore from employee for the greater upper management regime.

HR: Needs to be change to Robot Resource. Company really doesn't care what employees complain about. All voices flows into deaf ears. I remember where they use to care about what was occurring around the office spaces and of course this was change due to the new regime.

Advice to Senior Management – You're not always right, don't blame your employee for the thing you have fouled up. Listen and work closer with the employee. Respect goes both way, remember that.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at WeatherBug full-time for less than a year

Pros – Very Good opportunities
Excellent people to work with
Can learn an awful lot

Cons – Very Confused Strategies
Too many things to do at a time which could possibly reduce the quality of work

Advice to Senior Management – Have a Clear Strategy and stop random priorities flowing into the roadmap

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at WeatherBug full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – I suppose it's a job, nice to have in a down economy.

Cons – Since moving on from Weatherbug I can tell you that they grossly underpay, care very little about you as a person, no work/life balance, the product is overpriced and you're selling to school's who have no money. Quota will be hit by a maybe 10% of the sales team who have been in their territories forever.

Advice to Senior Management – Treat your employees with respect, motivate with positive reinforcement, award and recognize excellence when it's in front of you.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at WeatherBug

Pros – Great product, the best out there

Cons – Very Poor Sales Management team. No checks and balances from corporate leaders..

Advice to Senior Management – Lean to lead, not whine

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at WeatherBug

Pros – Very smart people and a nice atmosphere to work. When i first started there was much potential and exciting products. I liked the idea of working in a scientific environment. Fairly free to manage my projects as I needed and allowed to pursue approaches to my work.

Cons – The company isinvolved in too many projects which pull resources every which way. You start a project and then all the sudden there was another priority project. The business managers drove the projects without any discussions with engineering as to the do-ability and time constraints. The cart was put before the horse far too much!

To many products with no focus. They try to be an end all and end up with weak product sets.

Creating product requirements and specification before building is virtually never done. Its a shoot from the hip approach to product design and as consequence they waste time. money and engineering resources.

The infrastructure is a mess, too may databases and systems; very convoluted. Could be more streamlined.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire professional product managers to drive product development. Learn how to build product in more thoughtful process. Use established development practices; you not working in a garage any more!
Too many one off products for customers, they need to defined products and features and sell those with very little exception.

Better leadership is sorely need at the senior and middle management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at WeatherBug

Pros – some good and smart people; employees generally happy to be there; excessive amounts of free candy and free soda (a huge perk, right? that'll put at least a few pounds on you!); people believe in the mission (to a surprising degree) and management and others involved in the overall operation of the company tried hard

Cons – Unfortunately I can't get into too many specifics. I'm pretty sure they hired at least a few Sr. Managers that probably knew their stuff well, but lacked the people skills necessary to be genuine respected by their employees (that's sort of important).

I think they've probably gone as far as they can with their products, though their mobile apps seem to be popular. If I'm wrong, more power to them.

A friend who was one of their engineers complained of constant wake up calls in the middle of the night. As he put it "the network needs serious help." It did seem like the IT people were frequently scrambling.

Advice to Senior Management – I always had a hard time believing that I was saving a life simply by working at WeatherBug. I think that profound claim should be reserved for EMTs and those types who are really on the front lines.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at WeatherBug

Pros – Most of the people that I work with are good individual. Everyone is helpful to each other. Location is awesome if you live in MD. Little or no worry about traffic.

Cons – A lot of turnover because pay is terrible. Upper manage knows this yet they continue to let this happen. This company is cheap.
Lots of good engineers and lots of terrible engineers. No in between.
Upper management has no clue and is out of focus with lower employee.
CEO is spin doctor and everyone knows the truth.

Advice to Senior Management – Fire every one of them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend