Zend Technologies Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Zend Technologies full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I loved working with the people at Zend Technologies -- they are smart, caring and helpful! For every situation you will get at least three solutions, all of them well thought of and articulate. The company culture is international - you get to work with people from all over globe: US, Italy, France, Germany, Israel, Ireland and more. Meeting everyone at the annual conference is a real pleasure! Weekly beer bash where we all gathered with the CEO for a quick update on the week's events in the company were a great opportunity to feel part of the company and socialize with your co-workers.

Cons – the workload can sometimes be too much -- like in any startup, it is up to you to work with your manager on prioritization!

Advice to Senior Management – Help your employees with prioritizing the right tasks so they won't feel overwhelmed, and will have the best chances to succeed.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Zend Technologies

Pros – Open communication, relax environment, career:life balance

Cons – lack of strategic thinking, not a risk taker, always looking for short term results vs. long term

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Zend Technologies

Pros – They pay a very good salary, and have a good benefits package. They also have a very flexible work schedule, which is required given half of the company is in California, and half in Israel.

Cons – Zend internally laid off a number of people and expected all the remaining to pick up the slack. In turn this meant that everyone was over tasked and any complaint about the number of hours would be met with a response about how many hours your manager was having to work themselves.

Zend also, for being a company built on top of an open source project, has become very disconnected from the community that exists around PHP.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize that your employees are being overworked (including yourself) and find a real solution other than longer days. Also embrace and reconnect with the PHP community, listen to what they have to say, and don't dismiss it.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Zend Technologies

Pros – I worked with some great people at Zend and worked on some very interesting projects. They really do have a core of good people distributed throughout the company.

Cons – Unfortunately, almost all of the interesting people I worked with were not in upper management. There was a ceiling, above which you had to be hired in and you have to be known by one of the VC companies that control the board. This means that there is rarely an infusion of new ideas into the C/VP level, it's just more of the same that you see at every start up.

Advice to Senior Management – Delegate, decide what you want to do, spend more time developing products people want instead of letting marketing decide what products need to be released. Also, understand that no matter what your deadline is, the programmers there have a right to a life. You don't have the right to demand more than 40 hours from any employee, regardless of how important the project is to the company's well being.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Zend Technologies as an intern for less than a year

Pros – were a very good company.

Cons – not as they used to be

Advice to Senior Management – no idea anymore

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

Former Employee – worked at Zend Technologies

Pros – Nice place to grow up technically. Good people to work with. Great possibility to work tightly with and within Open Source communities.

Cons – The downsides are insignificant to specify them here.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attention to the software quality and stability, instead of hurrying up with developing new features. The software development is Twitter-driven.