Good company and benefits - Product Support Specialist Avalara Employee Review

Wonderful company. Wonderful culture. I was sad when the contract ended.

I did not experience any cons during my 15-mo tenure.

I started as a contractor and was taken on full-time. The compensation was pretty good and the PTO was good too. I was able to take on a project and enforce coding standards to build a scalable product. Various teams worked together and communicated, as well as devs being able to cross-pollinate into other teams. Good ability to learn about backend infrastructure and devops.

Nepotism was rampant. Managers would frequently prioritize their buddies over qualified people. Likewise, project management seemed nonsensical. You have a dev who took a project from the whiteboard to production and suddenly the junior is in charge of the brand new project? While cross-pollination was possible, it was usually up to the manager to decide when/how. Nepotism. Did I mention that?