Phunware Reviews

Pros

- Good managers and people (until they left)

Cons

- Constant fear of being laid off - Terrible pay, hard to survive on it - Once my direct managers left, I didn't have the same support or reassurance I wouldn't be laid off - New managers would passive-aggressively watch over our shoulders to see if we were working - New managers worried less about our growth or getting the work done, but rather make us do busy-work - CEO would walk the office at 8am and take names of who wasn't in their seats yet - Executive leadership is extremely out of touch, driving six-figure cars to work and paying experienced designers barely enough to survive in Austin - Leadership changes directions all the time. One week it's crypto, next week its enterprise software, next week its services. No clear direction which leads to massive layoffs. When I started, there was 200 employees, when I left, there were less than 50. - Unlimited PTO isn't really unlimited. When you get past 12 days, expect to get a lecture from managers about how other companies only really give 10-12 PTO days a year.

Pros

work the cutting edge, fellowship, snacks.

Cons

Sometimes "crunch mode" makes it hard to find work/life balance - not uncommon in tech.

Pros

Flexible hours, many people with deep mobile experiences.

Cons

Their core vision is what was hot at that moment. Contract development generates insufficient cash flow, doing too much but unable to focus on the next big thing. Finally, no one knows what the next big thing is.

Pros

Flexible work schedule and nothing beyond that

Cons

Very unstable work environment Since the company does not do a great job in providing job security, people are very scared to share their knowledge and resources. As It may make them replaceable. Not a good environment to be in!!!

Pros

Managers are level headed and open to communicating about jobs and any issues.

Cons

The president of the company is not loyal to the employees. Phunware jobs are done on a project by project basis and if they lose a contract with any of their clients then your job will be immediately gone.

Pros

-Flexible hours/schedule, in part due to working with other time zones -Cooperative atmosphere; Everyone really wants to help each other succeed Everyone I worked with was very friendly. It really was a pleasure to work with them.

Cons

-Growing pains -Small QA department At the time I was employed there, they were going through some growing pains due to a recent transition involving becoming a public company. This resulted in a series of layoffs. They tried to pin the reason for the layoffs on employee presence in the office, but I feel that was completely unrelated. I couldn't say what happened from then on, but I personally feel that trying to blame it on physical presence was a very poor move. In addition, the layoffs resulted in a large reduction of our QA team. Some of the team members were already stretched thin in terms of their work load already, so I hope they were able to address that.