ePrize Reviews

Pros

ePrize gives you the ability to work on some of the top brands in the country, which is a good resume builder. Their building is pretty cool, offering a coffee house-like area to work and hold meetings. There are also some interesting perks like free coffee, pop and a discounted lunch program.

Cons

No Life! - I worked, consistently, between 70 and 80 hours a week.
I received little, if no recognition from management for my hard work or accomplishments.
This company totally exhausted me.

Advice to Senior Management

It appears as if the company policy is to hire young and burn them out.... because they are replaceable. They will never attract or retain quality people without major change is respect for work-life balance and proper compensation.

Pros

Creative place to show your creativity

Cons

Nepotism at its highest level

Advice to Senior Management

Find another employer

Pros

Can be exposed to a wide variety of projects and clientele, if you are in a senior role.
Opportunity to learn, though opportunities may not be within your field of interest or expertise.
Technology ideas and platforms are very interesting.
Some of the employees are true gems.
Some great visions.
Projects are often very interesting.

Cons

Extremely long hours expected, without overtime or any form of tangible compensation - often due to lack of proper planning.
A lot of take from you, with NO give.
Inexperienced project managers running major company projects.
Implementation and adherence to established project management principles is missing.
Leadership skills are patchy across the board, with a mixture between great and abysmal.
Too many inexperienced and inept directors and executives.
Lack of professionalism at all level's.
Middling middle management (aka directors).
Massive ego's get in the way of team work at all level's.
Flirts; brownies; family; and social butterfly's are promoted beyond their skill level.
Lots of back-stabbing, and two-faced people.
Little recognition of commitment and dedication.
Highly stressful environment.
Directors often do not pull their weight.

Advice to Senior Management

Management believe in their own skills too much to consider listening to the advice of others, and so remain on their pedestals. ePrize continues to falter at every step because of the repeated mistakes demonstrated by "leaders" at all levels. Josh started out with a great vision, but has sadly allowed a poor culture to evolve and destroy any chance of meeting that vision. The culture sounds great on a superficial level, but has some deep rooted issues.

Pros

Some great people
At one time a great culture
At one time a fast growing company with lots of opportunity
Opportunity to work with fortune 500 companies if you are very lucky
Flexible work life balance if you push for it

Cons

Lack of vision
Management lacks basic understanding of many business principles
Misunderstanding of changing market
Fear of conflict making it impossible to get things done
Private company run like a public one
Rampant nepotism/favoritism.
Inability to measure or act based on measurement
Will work you to the bone or let you sit and do nothing but does not act to manage the situation
Politics are king, merit is an afterthought
Titles rather than compensation

Advice to Senior Management

Change. Don't simply change things, you already do that but legitimately change the way you approach the market and how you execute your business. There's still opportunity in the space, and good jobs to salvage for many people.

Stop trying to manufacture a culture, all that did was kill the existing one and turn the place into a shell of itself. At least fear used to be a motivator, now its merely a reason to turtle up and hide.

Get rid of the dead weight. At one time there was very little.

Pros

When it's fun it's fun at ePrize. Nice offices, interesting events, flexible environment where you can kick back and listen to music while you're working,

Cons

Total lack of self awareness. The company thinks it's the best in all aspects, but doesn't have enough experience to realize just how bad it really is. Software sucks, talent sucks, quality sucks, and senior leadership sucks.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire some professionals. Get rid of dead wood. Focus on building a sales organization that actually sells. Pick a course and stick with it.

Pros

The people at ePrize are awesome! Everyone looks out for each other and keeps client needs top of mind. There truly is a team environment where everyone works to accomplish great things.

Cons

If you're looking for advancement it is tough. Everyone is at the same spot in their career. It's obvious 20 people can't move to the same one leadership position.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership has a tough task. Trying to provide challenging work for the quickly growing out of their current position. Aside from returning to the previous growth rate, I don't see an easy solution to finding homes for everyone.

Pros

The benefits were excellent and lunch was cheap.

Cons

Very difficult to juggle professional life with personal life unless you are fresh out of college or have a party all the time disposition.

Advice to Senior Management

If you want real professionals you'll have to pay for them.

Pros

Relaxed work atmosphere, competent and professional co-workers, excellent opportunity to enhance skills

Cons

Long hours, dwindling benefits (including unpaid work days), questionable layoff practices (highly skilled, longer-lived employees let go to save cost, then portrayed as under-achievers)

Advice to Senior Management

Don't demand absolute loyalty, then show little in return. Tough decision have to be made sometimes, but not at the expense of those responsible for your success.

Pros

They used to have free pop, a lunch plan, some video games, they have a cool building. Unfortunately it's all a facade.

Cons

I was forced to work on the weekend of my fathers 60th birthday party which I was hosting. People are summarily dismissed with little or no warning or performance counseling before hand. Sales folks are rewarded for selling work that is undeliverable in the budget it is sold to. All in all, I would not want anyone whom I even remotely cared about work there.

Advice to Senior Management

Its your company, you can run it as you see fit, but be prepared to suffer the slings and arrows of former employees review.

Pros

Some of the smartest people I ever worked at was at ePrize. ePrize was one of my first jobs, and I learned a ton from the people around me.

Cons

High pressure working environment, plus not great work home balance. All of the extra hours people put in are simply assumed, and aren't really rewarded in an immediate or tangible way.

Advice to Senior Management

I think things have changed since I've worked at ePrize, but doing a better job acknowledging and respecting people's accomplishments would be helpful.