Relaxed environment - Software Design Engineer Sonic Foundry Employee Review

4.0
Apr 25, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Lots of autonomy over your day to day work - Leadership in Engineering puts trust in you to do your work right and listens to feedback - Office is quiet for the most part - Policy on time-off isn't too strict - Great office location, great for "thinking walks," or grabbing lunch or after work drinks

Cons

- Something that affects your work isn't always immediately communicated - Differences between Engineer and Marketing/Sales on what a product should be - Hard to find time between projects to improve architecture and tooling

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5.0
Feb 22, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people and collaborative culture!

Cons

Resources seem to be stretched.

2.0
Mar 6, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people - some more productive than others, some more experienced, but the culture and vibe in the office was great - unfortunately long gone. Good benefits, half-day Fridays, 30 days PTO, hybrid work environment.

Cons

CEO, CEO, CEO. Really admired Joe for a while, but his true colors are ugly. Terrible leader, thinks of himself as a great deal maker/team builder/seller and none of those are true. Drove the company into the ground! (what else do you call a CEO who joins a company with ~$4 stock, now delisted and pink slip trading at $0.01?) Terrible idea to have a company like this publicly traded. Starting a tech start-up within a public company again shows the lack of business acumen from Joe/the board. The board is as much to fault as the leadership in the company - they've let this whole process run its course - running up debt, multiple layoffs, drastically declining morale, and yet continue to reward c-suite handsomely.

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