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Neverware

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An awesome company that isn't afraid to get better - Product Manager Neverware Employee Review

5.0
Mar 8, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

In my experience, Neverware is built on treating employees like adults. There are growing pains, but overall this has created a remarkable culture. Time off and working from home are self-managed and largely governed by an honor-system. That allows work/life balance to co-exist with the kind of passion and (occasional) above-and-beyond effort that helps young companies succeed. The team is still small and very meticulous about new hires, but that's partly because everyone here could go get an easier job with less "dirty work", and is staying here to be part of something unique. Maybe not everyone's thing, but where else will you get to work on a desktop OS without being part of a mega-corporation?

Cons

It isn't AI, ML, AR, VR, or any other sexy industry trend. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The company is still in an awkward-teen-phase when it comes to establishing good managers providing the structure people need. It's happening.

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Neverware Response
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Striking the right balance - in all aspects - is always a challenge. I'm glad to hear that our decision to empower team members with a ton of autonomy is attracting people who thrive in that environment. The challenge of putting the right organizational structure in place (which includes good/experienced managers) in a growing/evolving company is a REAL challenge. Appreciate that you called it out - I think we are better than we were, but we certainly have a ways to go.

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5.0
Nov 4, 2021
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CEO approval
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Pros

Good environment. Excellent members. Right Business Strategy.

Cons

Too Far away from home.

5.0
Aug 18, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fair work environment. Salaries all visible from within the company. Flexibility to mold your position to something that fits you (for example I started six years ago as a server admin and moved to Software Engineering a few years back.) Leadership genuinely cares about your professional growth and wants to help you find niches that fit 'you'. Work life balance is fantastic, with the company actively promoting that you take time for yourself. Neverware has gone above and beyond to make sure all of their employees feel comfortable through the current pandemic. No one has been let go, the office has moved to a full remote work set-up and management is very open about a plan to return to office work, but only when everyone is comfortable with it. Management is very transparent about the company's plans and financial state which is great since nothing is ever a surprise.

Cons

Due to being a pretty small scale company there have been times where we've had to take pay cuts during financial hardships (for example, the early stages of the pandemic.) Though both times this has happened all employees have been paid back in full all income lost after the company found it's footing. Even though employees are generally setup to try to carve out a career path for themselves, sometimes the available paths can be very unclear or even non-existent. Lack of job overlap means that certain employees may not have team members they can fall back on as much as others (specifically on the engineering team,) though we're currently trying to hire more roles to fix that issue so this may not be a problem come 2021.

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