Overstock.com Reviews

Cons

Long hours during Q4- to be expected.

Cons

Lacks Honesty. Many people just pretend to work as words works better than work. People get promoted as they talk big and sell dreams and nobody cares for actual work. Everyone is trying to oversell themselves. Not sure if Politics and Nepotism has lead to this but it's not a good place to work if you are not vocal and can't sell yourself well.

Cons

No cons as such. This company has a very conducive working environment

Cons

Shifting priorities are rapid and chaotic... It's common for 2 or 3 teams to be working on similar problems at the same time.
Retail doesn't feel like the priority.
Company politics are dramatic... think Game of Thrones.
A lot of people pretending to work.
Limited support in ramping staff up.

Cons

There has been a major change in leadership recently, and the result have been very chaotic. Lots of moving and sharing of leadership resources has left teams in a difficult position. Image being on a ship with no captain, and trying to figure out where the ship is headed. Then, when the ship is pointed in the right direction, a captain comes along, reorients the ship, and then leaves. This can make it difficult for the crew to help get the ship where it needs to go.

Recently there have been bi-weekly hour-long, mandatory, "customer love" meetings, which includes all of the developers at overstock. There seems to be little of value that comes out of these meetings, and at their worst have been 30+ minutes of talking about leaderships recent promotions.

As an organization, Overstock has been very meeting heavy lately. This has increased greatly since the shift in leadership. There is little cost associated with the number of attendees, and what they could be achieving if they were enabled to work.

There is also prevalence of excessive and inefficient communication.

The result of all of this is that as a developer you'll be spending less than 50% of your time coding, and the rest of the time trying to cope with your surroundings.

Also, a lot of the senior development staff has recently been poached by T-Zero and Medici, two other branches under Overstock's ownership. This has had a serious effect on the morale of some throughout the organization. It's not great feeling like you didn't get picked for the cool-kid club.

Cons

A lot of change, a lot

Cons

Some of the management like my own senior management I've met a couple of times. My direct manager that I report to is all I probably need to talk to. Some re-organization changes recently made kind of made it unclear as to what department my team belongs to. So, there was that confusion, and for the most part my team is ignored by the department.

Cons

Favoritism among senior leaders, low job growth unless the executive likes you based upon personality and not merit

Cons

No skills Management. Super super polictial. They let me go two days before Christmas with no reason. Shady company

Cons

People and management are unprofessional, no long-term planing. The company is a sinking boat in messy. They lay off good employee to save budget, ask them to return laptop and leave immediately.