Rackspace Technology Software Developer Reviews

Pros

Friendly coworkers. Positive company culture.

Cons

Poorly performing stock, bad PR, revolving door of C-suite executives.

Pros

Four weeks of PTO was nice.

Cons

I don't even think I can really explain how inept the executive leadership is. Direction and planning from the top felt like watching a fish that had been thrown out on the asphalt on a hot summer day, flipping and flopping in madness from one place to the other, hoping in vain to find water. Their failed plans and leadership always results in "difficult choices" (layoffs and or outsourcing) for the rest of us, while they suck their millions out of the company.

Pros

Good remote work policies, good PTO

Cons

Company has been gutted by the demands of Private equity rollovers and public markets up to a point where the leadership is killing really profitable businesses

Pros

If you want remote this is a good company to work for. The Pay is good and the people are great too.

Cons

If you don't like this to change this is not the job for you, you usually are on a project for 6 months and then put on a different one for a different client.

Pros

Their initial salaries for cloud engineers might be alright. Their culture isn't the absolute worst.

Cons

My company (Onica) was bought by Rackspace, and the great treatment we god from Onica immediately vanished. Our yearly performance bonuses shrank, our yearly raise dropped to less than 2%. My friendly managers tried getting us new titles for the pay raises associated with them at least, and that was denied by Rackspace's management too. All of the talent from Onica's acquisition left Rackspace for a reason. Rackspace killed the positive culture Onica had. Rackspace's culture isn't the absolute worst in the industry, but it's absolutely nothing special, and they still don't care about you.

Pros

Good people to work with and interesting work

Cons

Leaders lack a vision for the company

Pros

Interesting projects, opportunities to learn new technologies and work with different kinds of clients

Cons

Onica was a great company to work for until it was acquired by Rackspace. Rackspace only cares about the bottom line and will be happy to offshore your job to save a penny. They had the audacity to give most engineers at Onica a 0 percent raise despite being their best earning BU. After everyone started leaving they tried to backpedal and give some people raises but it was too little too late. They charge clients a large multiple of what they pay us and are making a huge margin off of our hard work and yet still give raises below the rate of inflation.

Pros

Company culture cares about doing good Some of the best people you'll ever work with

Cons

There have been a lot of layoffs as roles are outsourced to India. The culture that was built on being friends and family has really shifted to a more corporate atmosphere

Pros

- adequate time off although significantly less than they acquired - they offer stock options - work from home

Cons

- pay is well below competitive rates - insurance is expensive and it's not great - equipment has to be at least 5 years old to be replaced (even computers) - the senior talent that made the company I worked for great are all actively looking to leave for something better or have already left - there is no initiative to try to retain talent - changes made by Rackspace have actively killed communication and collaboration across the company - lack of quality documentation. when looking for information for internal process or to support customers the documentation is almost always outdated and no longer relevant. - onboarding is a nightmare, something is always missed - the entire company is sprawled across multiple instances of tools with minimal consistency - we are understaffed and drowning yet they laid-off a large chunk of employees. despite having over 1,000 open positions (and for some reason sounds proud about that) there have been very few new hires (next to no quality new hires) because compensation is not competitive

Pros

This was a few years back during the RelationEdge merger, but company events were really fun. Managers spent a great deal making sure employees weren’t overstaffed on projects

Cons

I had experience in other areas, but given the developer role was only staffed to do those specific tasks and didn’t have opportunities to branch out