AppDirect Reviews

Pros

- Very energetic and visionary leadership team, with late addition of very experienced members
- Excellent engineering leaders and very bright software engineers
- Experience the Silicon Valley culture in Montreal
- Very good atmosphere and culture of transparency
- Great compensation and perks (fancy lunch every Friday, food, beers, Foosball table, game nights, ...)
- Implementing the latest engineering technics and technology
- Pre-IPO - private growing company

Advice to Management

- keep continuing adding strong and experienced leaders around you and your vision, listen to them
- continue to invest in the engineering non-functional requirements, engineering roadmaps and agile-scrum methodologies

Pros

Great People, interesting product, challenging work, great office, great perks

Pros

Good access to resources, tools, and technology needed to help get the job done. They are aware of the lack of women in the office (HQ) and are actively trying to recruit more

Advice to Management

Make more of an effort. Act like you care.

Pros

-Great views, once a week catered lunch, snacks
-Healthcare coverage and a good amount of PTO
-Flexibility with work schedule to pickup kids

Advice to Management

Please look at what your employees are saying

Pros

AppDirect has a great business solution to solve for the changes in digital transformation. A great strong team environment with a razor like focus on culture.

Advice to Management

Sales people should be spending 80% of their time with customers learning their business problems, not 50% of their time on metrics and inwardly focusing requests

Pros

Everyone is extremely helpful and kind
Good product
Amazing view from the office

Pros

What does it feel like to work for a company you believe in?

AppDirect has an incredible product and an even more incredible vision for the future; striving to build the platform the world needs to find, buy and use software in the modern age. AppDirect is tackling the largest distribution problems the world faces. Problems that the largest fortune 500 companies struggle with and avoid. And we are succeeding!

I work with some of the most talented, passionate, kind and intense people I've ever met. I am excited every day I come to work. The company is growing rapidly but has so many things going on that there is plenty of room to grow and evolve in your role and responsibilities.

What does it feel like to work at a company you believe in? It feels amazing!

Advice to Management

Get out there and talk with your employees! Nick and Dan have such a great vision for the company and the product. More people need to hear it first hand to understand the true magnitude of where we are headed.

One team, one dream!

Pros

Amazing facility and office space, fun community events and team bonding (wine nights!), talented leadership team who engage with all staff and sit on the floor with their team members, staff alignment on company's core values, great holiday party

Pros

Company has been on a rocket trajectory and is now working through the phase of stabilizing and maturing to build real scale. The mission/vision is highly ambitious and the market is primed. There is significant opportunity to impact the business and no shortage of projects.

- Passionate, smart people to work with
- Opportunity to Play at the center of an emerging digital ecosystem
- Strong but evolving culture
- New more seasoned management coming on board
- Driven CEOs with hearts in the right place

Advice to Management

Keep focused on building the foundation of the new organization and hiring for management/executive experience.
Build a clear plan and trust people to execute on the plan. Separate skunk-works from core objectives.
Better decisions get made with more input. Reach out to the smart people you have to help make decisions.

Pros

People and transparency! The people are the reason AppDirect is a great place to work. Being surrounded by the best and brightest every day make the job fun and rewarding (and the views from the San Francisco office don't hurt), but transparency has been critical too. Like every company with rapid growth there are ups and downs but I always feel in the loop and know how to contribute.

Advice to Management

Continue to acknowledge the challenges as much as the successes and trust in the talented employees to provide the solutions. Listening goes a long way.