employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

VerticalResponse

Is this your company?

Mgmt not willing to take responsibility and just push things around until they go away - Technical VerticalResponse Employee Review

2.0
Sep 17, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is ok, junior and mid-level co workers are nice and willing to help if they could. Personal time off is liberal. New office location is nice.

Cons

Mgmt does not want to take on any project for risk that they would have to do work or be blamed for failure. I have seen many projects where the fix is simple, but takes months to implement, all because paperwork, meeting, approvals or what not. You get the feeling that some of the staff have never worked outside of VR and have no idea how things function outside the VR bubble. If your going for an interview, just ask - how many people had this position before?

Explore other reviews about VerticalResponse

5.0
Apr 25, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very accommodating to the needs of employees

Cons

didn't focus on fixing issues that where constantly brought to them

2.0
May 20, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most of the employees were nice, interesting, talented people who were a joy to work with. The neighborhood is cool and company events were generally enjoyable.

Cons

Upper management is completely clueless and did not appear to have even a basic grasp of the company's purpose / vision even after being in charge for years. It's questionable as to why a company with 100 employees needs to have C-Level, VP Level and Director level management. How many layers do you possibly need between the CEO and a department of nine people? The result of all these layers of management is meeting after meeting after meeting. I spent at least 20 hours a week in meetings (this was not abnormal for any employee) as this made management feel like they were busy doing something. If you look at this site, you'll see there are 18 positions currently available. This is not because the company is rapidly growing. It's because roughly 50% of the staff quit since the beginning of 2010 and are continually needing to be replaced (in some cases, individual positions have had to be replaced multiple times). Losing half your staff -- many of whom, like myself, worked there for years and years -- is devastating. Yet management has changed nothing.

4
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All