poor senior management and unfair reviews - Senior Software Developer Hitwise Employee Review

3.0
Mar 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* free beer * good compensation and benefits (but yearly increase % is minuscule) * Incredible technology stack to play with

Cons

* overworked, 60 hours a week is norm for the unlucky few * clueless management but masters of politics, for instance, you have new managers joining from nowhere and give poor directions to teams of technical experts; and new head of product management that never try out the product herself, they have no clue about product's vision * limited opportunity for promotion and recognition unless you suck up to the manager and he gives you a nice review rating. It doesn't matter how talented you are and what you contributed to the team. As long as you are a smooth talker, and can kiss a few manager and director's rear end, you're in good shape. * despite efforts to improve execution, decision making and leadership accountability is still non-existent. Senior management does not take accountability and blame the staff for not executing fast enough

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 21, 2008
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Pros

It's a growing company, and the people are pretty smart. You get an amazing view of what's going on on the internet, which will allow you to spout out all kinds of interesting data tidbits at cocktail parties.

Cons

The pay was terrible and there was no way I could get what I was worth.

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