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My Vision Express

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A disorganized company, focused on making money now, with little consideration for the what the customer needs. - Software Developer My Vision Express Employee Review

2.0
Mar 21, 2013
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Pros

Company is small. Most of the people working there are nice, with the exception of some people in management. The support staff is competent and the support team is fairly organized. If you negotiate your salary, you can make decent money depending on your position.

Cons

This company's software development methods are outdated. In terms of software development structure, there really isn't any... it basically fits the definition of "cowboy coding" perfectly. As a result, the software they produce is buggy and bloated, not to mention archaic. Their flagship product "My Vision Express" is developed using PowerBuilder, an Integrated Development Environment that's outdated compared to modern products like Visual Studio, Eclipse, or IBM Rational. Management has little regard for involving software developers in the "planning" process, which usually goes on behind closed doors. Projects are passed on to the developers verbally or through a vague ticket using their support ticketing system. For this reason, projects often drag on for months, as they're scrapped and redone time and time again because of a lack of proper planning and poor communication. Development is driven by bloating their software, adding layers of features that are disorganized and often counter-intuitive. Development is not user driven, it's driven by a need to do things right now, instead of doing things the right way. As a result, each version of "My Vision Express" has become slower than the last. For example, instead of developing an actual thin client solution for a web hosted platform, they decided to use their desktop application over a Remote Desktop Connection, which is a lazy solution and makes their software even slower for web hosted customers. If there was any decent competition for this company, they would be in trouble. Overall, an average place to work if you're in sales, support, or consulting. But if you're a serious software engineer that cares about your career, this might not be the place for you.

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5.0
Oct 16, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Awesome colleagues who are exceptionally helpful and friendly. Good work/life balance with flexible scheduling available. Management is always open and receptive to hearing suggestions for improvement. Fabulous opportunities for career advancement if you take initiative and demonstrate measurable improvements.

Cons

There are growing pains as there always will be when a company grows faster than expected. There is often a lack of communication between departments but it is being worked on.

1.0
Oct 30, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Steady pay check, decent benefits, the company is growing, though I'm not sure if thats really a good thing. Support department is good, but they have to be because of all the issues customers have to deal with when using My Vision Express. HR is pretty organized, and apparently the sales people are doing a good job.

Cons

Incompetent managers who would rather lie and blame employees than take responsibility for their own mistakes. Working with legacy software in PowerBuilder which has been outdated from the beginning. A complete lack of organization in development (The new version of the main product was supposed to be out a year ago and is still largely unfinished despite several new hires). Their job ads for developers say that you'll be working in C# .NET with ASP MVC, but there is a good chance that you'll end up doing bug fixes in the PowerBuilder IDE because there are just so many issues with My Vision Express. Management has been claiming for years that they are planning to move the PowerBuilder product to C# .NET, but it has always been a lie. It's so far gone now that such a move is near impossible without several years of development time and a competent team of developers, neither of which they have.

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