Custom Ink Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

As an adult coming from the mean world of work I have to say that the team environment at Customink is amazing. I don't wake up and dread going to work. Work/Life balance is easy to achieve over here. Benefits for us include outstanding low rates and lots of perks. Food available all the time (no charge for a lot of it) and catered 2x a week. If you work hard your able to over earn on your bonus and there are lots of opportunities for growth. I appreciate everyday what an amazing company I work for.

Cons

Pay could be better, but its a balance. I could make more elsewhere but not be happy in my life. Required OT is at least paid but still required. There will always be negative Nancy types but the good outweighs any of the bad.

Pros

Company Culture Work life balance Professional development

Cons

Need clearer career path for everyone. Health Insurance

Pros

CustomInk is a great place if you want to get into web development for a real business. Here's my experience as a software developer intern (other job roles may vary): + They use a lot of Ruby on Rails and for the most part stick to the best practices. Their codebase is well kept and high code quality is a core part of their workflows. This is good, because as someone joining the team you won't have to deal with technical debt as much as at some other places. They are also pretty generous about learning on the job. + The team is great to work with - managers included. There's room to socialize, room to talk about cool tech, or room to be alone and work - up to you. At the end of the day everyone is very collaborative and passionate about the work itself. + Excellent work life balance. This is just my experience, but, I never saw anyone taking 10hour days or anything like that. Everyone from managers, developers, interns, etc, all had a solid 8 hour day and rarely chatted or responded to emails outside work hours - which is good. + Cool product. At the end of the day, you're helping bring some custom design to life, either on a shirt, hat, sweater, or whatever - and real people wear those. That's something to be happy to say you work for. + Perks like catered lunch once a week, company outings, snacks, remote work if you need to, etc. I would recommend a position here to anyone that wants to apply as a software developer (especially if you have Rails experience).

Cons

For the most part, there aren't that many cons or at least none that don't also apply to basically all other software jobs. Probably the biggest one (in my personal experience, which could be a lot different than another developer's) is that some projects / tickets are more exciting than others so that might influence how excited you are to come into work some weeks. Also, it is a well established company, and while there are still opportunities to take ownership of some part of the site, for the most part much of what you'll be working on has already been decided by management or UX or whoever calls the shots.

Pros

The benefits offered are amazing. Great health insurance, dental, and maternity leave. Pay is fair for the current market. The atmosphere is really what makes working here so amazing. You become part of a big family!

Cons

The pay is fair for the market but not the best out there. For the amount of care they want us to take the pay could be better. They are generous with PL but should also have 'sick' days on top of the allotted time off. I feel that lumping it all together creates a desire to come in even when sick in order to maintain your PL balance. Work life balance could be better. Sometimes you are asked to change your schedule even if you've had the same one for years.

Pros

Great Workplace and office environment

Cons

Work life balance is horrible. You need to work so many extra weekends and so many weekends each quarter.

Pros

-Amazing Benefits -Great work/life balance -Coworkers and bosses that care

Cons

-Frequent shifts in metric expectations

Pros

- Schedule Flexibility - Healthy Operation Hours - Good Work/Life Balance - Great PL/Benefits - Small discounts on non-printed apparel - (Pre-COVID) Fun activities to participate in - Sometimes Community focused - Started Diversity + Belonging groups

Cons

- Compensation - No opportunities for Advancement or growth - Major lack of adequate new hire training - No Transparency - Other Departments barely understand why Stores exist - Customer barely understand why Stores exist - No Part Time

Pros

Free lunch, coffee and snacks

Cons

Constantly changing expectations No work life balance New insurance coverage is severely lacking compared to old coverage Pay rates and structure change all the time Bonus structure gets revamped all the time

Pros

- Free snacks - Great benefits - Free lunch - Cool location

Cons

- If you aren't social and don't want to be best friends with coworkers, you won't get anywhere in the company - They constantly talk about a work/life balance then make you work an unimaginable amount of overtime throughout the year - Only time they accept personal leave is if you request it 6+ months in advance or you only plan to take Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday off - They closely track when you clock in/out, how long your lunch is and how much break time you take and constantly talk about being put on an action plan for being a few minutes late or taking a 31 minute lunch - The rivalry between the Fairfax and Reno offices is ridiculous - Employees are treated like children and management can't step up and tell the people who aren't doing their jobs, to do their jobs. Rather they tell the department as a whole to do better because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings

Pros

Loved everyone I worked with- really cared about the team. Amazing work life balance

Cons

Small company- minimal advancement opportunities