Overall very, very difficult place to work. They say all the right things and do some good things too, but ultimately incredibly toxic. Very similar to Theranos, except instead of lying to outside investors, the leadership team lies to employees, partners, and customers, constantly saying things that aren’t true, pertaining to the business and software. People are building their careers and future here, so, with how bad the lying is, I would say the management team is extremely fraudulent and that will greatly affect people's long-term career opportunities/future salaries.
- They will promise lots of opportunities to grow at a startup. Ask them what their (NW only, not DSI) revenue is. Ask them what opportunity means since they don’t really have customers. They can’t tell you.
- ~20% of employees quit last year. Some have quit without having anything else lined up.
- Lots of people have had mental and physical health issues directly related to work.
- Leadership constantly talks bad about each other when the other person isn’t in the room.
- Some of the most toxic people are long-time friends, founders, or married to someone else there, so they can get away with whatever behavior, including screaming at people in front of other employees.
- Deception is rampant. Leadership will constantly lie to employees, customers, and partners.
- They will gaslight you. They said they are giving employees unlimited PTO because they care. Nobody wants it. They won’t pay people out and they didn’t even give people a big enough heads up to use it. They are only doing it because the company they acquired had it.
- Ask them why they’ve had such a difficult time getting customers. They will say it’s because “they don’t have enough features.” But they lost the first customer which was around for a long time and was an institution founded by the current CEO. Employees kept bringing up they were worried about the institution's satisfaction, the CEO lied and said they were happy time and time again, and now a very basic software application already dumped them. They will say they “pivoted their strategy.”
- Handled COVID miserably. The founders are all Christian / Catholic and hold to “conservative” values, so you can imagine how they have personally felt about the pandemic, and what that has done to inhibit their ability to lead during a global pandemic.
All the reviews on here that say the business outlook is good don't understand finance. Ask them how much they've invested vs. revenue and then try to find a company with that bad of financial metrics that didn't fail. You won't find one.
I could go on and on. But before you take a job here, reach out to some of the people that have left on LinkedIn. Nobody has anything good to say about this place and nearly everyone will say the same thing. You will be better off not wasting your time. Several people are still looking to leave.
