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Moon Valley Software

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Manic CEO- Don't work here!!! - Editor Moon Valley Software Employee Review

1.0
Sep 14, 2015
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Pros

Friendly coworkers make the company. Fairly flexible schedule. Casual work environment and great location in Arroyo Grande.

Cons

CEO Pete Ryan is cruel. He will come off very friendly and personable at first (mostly by asking extremely inappropriate questions about your family and relationships in the interview), but if anything goes wrong (and that happens a lot here) he will hunt down someone to blame. If you don't join him in berating this person he will then turn on you. He is extremely inappropriate in his communications and even made a rape joke in at least one staff meeting.

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5.0
Sep 3, 2020
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Pros

Matt is awesome and really knows his stuff. Learned a lot from him.

Cons

A lot of contracts coming and going, so you need to be able to learn and adapt quickly.

5.0
Oct 24, 2015
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Pros

I worked at Moon Valley for over a year. I got to watch the tides of employees rise and fall. I've kept up to date on the reviews here, and I can understand what they say. Personally, I found Pete somewhat intimidating. I think it's important to note he's a grandfather while most employees at Moon Valley are in there 20s. I feel like this generational gap has caused a lot of the negative reactions to him–our generation isn't necessarily used to interacting with someone much older than us yet, and that can make a lot of behavior seem much worse than if it came from someone else. Perhaps my explanation of this is wrong, but I stick to the main point–while Pete could get exasperated and say less than ideal things at times, I think this fell squarely in the realm of excusable, normal behavior. In my experience, both with me and from sitting within hearing range of his office, Pete put a great deal of effort into clear communication and rarely made unfair demands. He treated me well and gave me incredible time and hours flexibility. I will look back on Moon Valley fondly.

Cons

– some questions asked during meetings were too specific for a quick answer (how many man hours will that take?), which led to hasty guesswork – raises were tied to a silly 6 month goal system – high turnover! I lost a lot of coworkers

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