Four Winds Interactive Reviews

Pros

Neat Product, growing company, cool office, good people

Cons

Lots of moving parts. Culture has changed significantly over the years.

Pros

When starting I believed in the manager but quickly learned that the entire salesforce team had left. The upside was how positive the stakeholders and coworkers were!

Cons

The coworkers that enticed me to join ended up quickly leaving and were replaced with a new guard who didn't communicate and interact with me. I was told when I asked that everything was going great only to find one day I was booted out the door.

Pros

1. I loved my team. My favorite team I've worked with 2. I had a lot of fun while working here 3. I had the most career growth while I was here. A lot of opportunity to step up and learn new things 4. The Executive Team was my favorite I've worked with

Cons

1. The key reason I left was compensation. Their whole compensation and recruiting structure is to hire early career so they can pay you less. Do not get good bumps in pay with promotion 2. Typical things you see at a software company

Pros

Four Winds Interactive has a lot going for it. The company has a strong customer base, a good foundation for their product, and smart employees. The company has a lot of different avenues for growth and learning in a variety of areas, and provides a decently laid back environment that doesn't take itself too seriously. Four Winds Interactive provides a lot to its customers, and there is always something meaningful to work on that provides value to users. In addition to this, the architecture and QA team does really good work and works hard. They're great to work with.

Cons

Unfortunately, the middle management at Four Winds Interactive are filled with incompetent people with little leadership skills. On the technical side, the technical leaders amount to not much more than a warm body to fill a role. The technical leaders do not provide any value on discussions related to product direction, infrastructure decisions, or any type of vision for the future that employees can get behind. In addition, it's very difficult to get any type of upward mobility. Management requires a lot of following up with in order to get any type of salary increase or promotion. In fact, at one point I was given a promotion without a salary increase, which I found to be highly insulting. A lot of poor decisions were made in quick succession that drove away a lot of the great engineers on the team. But, management did not seem to care, nor did they do anything to stop the bleeding or incentivize people to stay with the company. If the technical management was replaced with people who had passion, technical competence, and a lead-by-example mentality Four Winds Interactive could really excel.

Pros

good benefits and unlimited PTO

Cons

challenges with GTM, rebranding and merging 3 companies into one. Due to Covid, now have a remote sales force but only cater to employees in Denver office

Pros

Cool flashy technology, worldwide customer base of the biggest companies, fun Denver-based tech employees, beautiful office.

Cons

When it was fully owned by the founder, it was an exciting, celebratory, fast-growing place to work. But, ownership changed, and now the goal is not to be the biggest, best, coolest company around. The new goal became to quickly acquire other companies, minimally integrate the products, minimize spending on employees and tools, and make the books and product portfolio look as attractive as possible in order to sell it all off to a bigger company in a few years. It's probably going to work, but it's not fun for the employees as they will see their workload increase and salary decrease, and they will not have a stake in the end sale.

Pros

Ton's of energy and motivated people

Cons

Not for people who don't enjoy a rapid paced environment

Pros

Great product lines that help serve more than half off the fortune 100.

Cons

Came into the org at an interesting time where they were merging 3 companies into 1. after 8 months on the job, process is still being refined and still has a lot of work to be done.

Pros

It is great to finally work with a company that doesn’t micro manage. That knows each individual is a person and has human emotions, needs, family, and moments outside of work. You can be a person here.

Cons

While they are getting better at it… there are a lot of things happening at once and it gets difficult to keep up and locate resources without having to ask questions.

Pros

The company has done a good job pivoting to allowing remote work permanently. The overall culture feel community-oriented and allows for an overall pleasant work environment.

Cons

Leadership seems to not be able to grasp employee concerns around compensation and reducing attrition, especially of resources needed to hit timelines and roadmaps. There is little excuse for the lack of understanding of employee concerns due to several cultural and eNPS surveys over the past few years.