This company should be avoided at all costs - Anonymous employee Bypass Employee Review

1.0
Nov 9, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited PTO (although you will be pinged constantly during it)

Cons

It's hard to know where to begin with the cons of Bypass (or Bypass POS or Bypass Mobile..maybe settle on a name, at least?) Individually, most people are okay. Some of them are even pretty great. Collectively, the company is an organizational nightmare. Every problem that arises is someone else's responsibility. Good luck getting internal support. They partner with whomever will throw money at them, leading to a product that is haphazard and difficult to support - see their business pivot of 2015. There is no vision at the executive level beyond selling more devices. When they promote, if they promote, they do it based on time-served, with little regard for any other qualities including actual skills needed for a position. There is absolutely no work-life balance. It doesn't matter if you're in the hospital, on vacation, or in the bathroom - your time is not your own. The salaries for non-engineers are laughable, especially in a city such as Austin. During my tenure there were a number of high-profile exits, including account managers that only lasted four months. This should have been a warning sign. Projects were assigned and never followed up on. Tasks were doled out with no direction, no structure and the majority of the feedback received was negative. New responsibilities outside the scope of your role were added without discussion and then harped on during 1x1's if not completed. Processes changed with little to no explanation as to why. Attempts to improve quality of work were met with non-committal shrugs and promises to look into it at a later date. Customers were treated as though they were idiots internally - trying to be Apple and saying "they don't know what they want, we do" is all well and good if you have products that support that "philosophy". Using technology to solve problems was unheard of - unfathomable for a technology company. Things were done in a certain way because they were always done in a certain way. All in all, a baffling experience and an absolute waste of time in terms of career goals and personal achievement.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Motivated, focused team of adults all working towards same goal - Recently acquired, our benefits package was affected for the better - Relatively zero ramp-up time when work-from-home hit due to COVID-19...the transition has been smooth, almost frictionless - The culture has never felt stronger in the years I've been here

Cons

- No matter how fast you move, it feels like you should be moving faster to capitalize on all the opportunity in the mobile & contactless markets now. I wish we moved a little faster and didn't have to say no to some prospects in markets we are not yet the best fit for - Acquisition occured a few days into quarantine, so integration to new parent company has been stop-and-go - Some benefits we received due to the acquisition have been reduced or slashed due to COVID-19

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3.0
Jul 11, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

good way to bypass this

Cons

long working hours tough management

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