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1.0
Apr 8, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Get to work on a product that had little market competition and great potential to solve a real gap in the Leave and Absence Management space. - Great for those who hate their family and do not want a work/life balance. Your life will be ruled by AbsenceSoft firefighting and giving 150% of your effort to do your part in keeping the sinking ship afloat.- Used to offer competitive salary, flexible work arrangement, snacks, PTO, etc. - You will learn a great deal in a very short amount of time due to the urgent nature and complexity the business operates under.

Cons

- The core software product is a pile of junk and wildly configurable which leads to huge stability issues and daily firefighting because there is no solid QA strategy or testing suite to account for even a fraction of all the possible scenarios or regressions. - The company will do anything for a dollar which means the sales and business team will promise anything to win a client without a cohesive business case or plan on how they will deliver it. - The company has an extreme lack of focus which leads to dozens of #1 priorities which requires extreme multitasking and context switching. The company has never delivered something on time and with quality due to this. - The weak, faulty product is the core of the company’s problems. Until the platform is rewritten, the company or product will not be stable under any amount or caliber of leadership, funding, or hard work. The problem is it is almost certainly too late to build a replacement product and perform such a migration. - The new private equity company, Bow River Capital, who purchased the company back in 2019 is trash. The leadership there is trying its hand at software ventures and is proving itself poorly at it. Just because their head guy John Raeder had one successful company and exit does not mean that every attempt after which will be a success. Since purchasing AbsenceSoft in 2019 the company has already gone through 2 reductions in force events under its watch. - Recent hires within the last few months have already been laid off.

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5.0
Oct 15, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The culture here is excellent. I was welcomed with open arms as a new employee, and everyone is genuinely excited about scaling and trying new things. No one shuts down ideas. The new leadership really stands out. They're creative and forward thinking, but they also respect and value the people who built the strong product and got the company where it is today. It's a great balance of fresh energy and honoring what's already been built. Tons of growth opportunities since the company is actively scaling. If you want to take on new challenges and advance your career, there's room to do it. Work-life balance is a real priority. The company offers 2 company wide mental health days plus 2 additional days you can choose yourself. It shows they actually care about employee wellbeing, not just talk about it.

Cons

As with any growing company, things can move quickly and processes are still being refined. But the openness to feedback makes this feel like growing pains rather than systemic issues.

5.0
Aug 31, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Growing company. Lots of future growth coming

Cons

With change comes difficulties, but overall very few cons.

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