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Endgame

Acquired by Elastic

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A company which lacks direction and competent management and treats employees as disposable. - Senior Software Developer Endgame Employee Review

2.0
May 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Moderate salary, free beer, ping pong, build your own computer, catered lunch on Fridays, $4k conference budget.

Cons

A full year after change of C-Suite management, no clear idea of what product to sell. HR Department was fired with change in management and was replaced by a sole contractor to cover a near doubling of the workforce. Fired 5 of 13 employees in a meeting and offered the other 8 the option to take a 10% salary increase to move to Arlington, VA or to work for 2 more months and take severance (employees that desired to stay were responsible for negotiating for more than the offered amount if they deemed it too low). Product Managers had no clear direction of what potential customers would want or need. Sales teams were fired multiple times, each time without any tangible product to sell. The only product that had a customer received little to no resources, upgrades, or work, causing a loss of a major customer and the potential loss of the other major customer if huge features aren't implemented soon. Employees promoted to managers/team leads expected to spend many hours (10-15/week) in meetings, handle hiring for their team, and still perform at the previous levels. Product deadlines and feature ideas only defined by demos for conferences (such as RSA), not by customer feedback. No sort of agile (or any) planning system in place for determining time to develop or to prioritize features. PTO payout upon termination/quit removed the same day that the large firing occurred, so anyone deciding to quit who wasn't fired did not get paid out. This was disguised as a "take all the leave you want with management approval", but was mostly a way to take another pay benefit away from long-time employees. Frequent meetings involving 12 or more people about software design decisions, which devolve into arguments about naming conventions.

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5.0
Aug 6, 2019
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CEO approval
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Pros

Awesome Culture, Great benefits, Flexible Hours

Cons

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5.0
Sep 17, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

• Collaborative workplace with smart, talented and driven colleagues • Plenty of room to explore new technologies and experiment with new ideas • Flexible work environment that supports work/life balance and focuses on the quality of the work not punching a timesheet • Executive support for professional development – everyone is encouraged to remain on the cutting edge of their discipline through conferences, presentations, hosting meet-ups, and other interactions with their community • Great perks – pong, free beer, free lunches on Fridays, weekly tech demos/discussions, whiteboards galore, and spaces devoted to brainstorming and UI design ideas • Leadership is transparent about both challenges and successes and are much more competent, approachable, and integrated with the workforce than I’ve seen elsewhere • Challenging projects in both the federal and commercial space – lots of very cool stuff that has and will continue to have a big impact • West Coast IT culture both in DC and San Francisco

Cons

• Still some growing pains with the closure of one office and the opening of an office in San Francisco • Personnel gaps that can’t be filled fast enough, especially in engineering • The transitions over the last year and a half have impacted retention

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