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3.6

57% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)

57% positive business outlook

StrongBox Data Solutions has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.

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16 reviews
2.0
Feb 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, and an interesting product.

Cons

- there is no internal QA and most developers do not bother to write tests for their code, leading to a constant state of crisis and customer emergencies - many nights and weekends working to resolve said crises - no recognition for more competent engineers, in a perverse way you have more visibility if you code more slowly and your work has more bugs - employees are routinely laid off without warning or severance pay

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StrongBox Data Solutions Response
6y
Sorry to hear you had this experience. I realize this was written a long time ago, but what you state is completely inaccurate and bears no resemblance to SBDS today. No QA? Really? We have a highly automated and rigorous QA process, which includes individual unit tests at the developer level, up through multiple levels throughout the build process, culminating in an automated series of integration testing. No code is released without going through this very structured process. This discipline is the case for all types of release, including patches. And the results are obvious in our customer sites, where StrongLink is solving problems no other solution can do. Our developers work in a team environment, are highly skilled in a culture that encourages innovation and collaboration. Everything top to bottom is done within a Structured Agile Framework, with clear deliverables and process to avoid just the panic that you are suggesting. Which is why our software is deployed in some of the very largest data environments on earth, with scale-out capabilities that are unrivaled in our space.
2.0
Oct 6, 2017

Out of control

Recommend
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Pros

Clean software architecture Planned new product seems to fill a niche with market demand

Cons

Essentially no software project management - critical customer delivery missed by months Essentially no social work environment - each programmer is a silo. People don't even go out to lunch together. Hierarchical technical management - management does not allow programmers to have a mind of their own or work as a team One manager insults employees for making understandable mistakes. Not cool.

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StrongBox Data Solutions Response
8y
Thank you for your review. We realize that during the company transition there were some hurdles to overcome. We have taken your feedback and made some significant changes. We have brought in an experienced product/project manager, scrum master, and marketing manager. We have replaced the software architect that introduced a lot of the challenges mentioned here. We have daily stand-ups that are an open forum for the development team to introduce new ideas and work together to tackle an issue. We have implemented many of these ideas into the products already. We are truly an agile team. We have a completely open-door policy. Every single person in our company all the way up to the CEO is on Slack and just a message or phone call away. In short we believe we have made the personnel changes needed to remove the negativity and silo-effect from the team. Our company culture is much stronger now, I can promise you that.
2.0
May 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Very laid-back. Small team, fully remote. Interesting product with lots of space to explore.

Cons

Subpar compensation. Nonexistent direction. Cancelled all team members' paid time off over the Christmas holiday with no warning. Parent company is currently trying to extract as much value from Stronglink (née StrongBox Data Solutions) as possible. They've effectively beheaded the company and are actively driving it into the ground by spending development time on "features" that are branded in a way that is at best misleading to their potential customers and at worst plain fallacious.

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