Technology area - Anonymous employee VMBC Employee Review

1.0
Aug 17, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There were a few actually pretty cool people.

Cons

Let's start: - Management lacks technical and soft skills. They are the worst managers I've seen. Examples: * The entire team of mobile development resigned (6 people, most of them did it within a lapse of 5 months) because of the lack of career opportunities, salary and the overhead of work given by the Development Manager (Luciano). He couldn't hold even 1 of the 6. I'm talking that there were only 2 projects in the company, not that much to manage. * There has been a QA Sr position that couldn't be covered, where 3 people spend less than 6 months before quitting, because the QA Manager (Javier) can only manage his close friends. - Both managers are authoritarian, and they don't accept any critic, even when having asked for it. I've seen the Development Manager in a meeting asking for opinions on the new "scrum enhancement" yell violently to a guy for just pointing out that they didn't have any of the elements of "scrum" (story points, stand up, poker planning, backlog grooming... none). This guy was called in to the meeting among other, specifically, because of his seniority. - Everyone suffers, through long hours, the results of incompetent decisions of management. - Human resources are non-existent, except to support managers. - The Director of Product (Managers' boss) resigned a few months after the mobile team. Having meeting him, he was very different (he was capable, willing to improve, open to critic), thus some ex-employees agree it was probably due to his limitations to improve anything under the current managers.

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5.0
May 24, 2015
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Pros

You will have a voice. Great support and benefits. Working with national brands. Challenging work. Ability to grow. Cutting edge implementations. Ability to establish thought leadership. Positive culture. Profit sharing.

Cons

Must be engaged no spectating which is positive for me. Not a place to coast. Expand sales and marketing team to pursue more top conscious brands.

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5.0
Oct 25, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The clients they have are 100% some of the best in the industry. Great exposure to really smart people in Fortune 100 companies and their clients love them Great company culture. Focused and driven but still somewhat chill. I love working in the new office, very modern, great fridge, great benefits, great location and makes me feel like I'm working for google or Zappos. It's really different from anywhere I've worked before. Owners are intense, but I feel like they really care about my success. The company is very successful and has been around for many years so it feels very stable. Most of the employees have been around for at least 5 years and there is almost no turnover, except for the people they have fired.

Cons

Since the company is growing so fast, things change really fast. I think they could be better planners. They get rid of people who don't perform, but I think they could be nicer about it. I'm addicted to this job, I love it and I hate it at the same time.

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