Zonar Systems Reviews

Pros

plenty of room to grow and steer towards projects of interest Internal advancement fun atmosphere get the week between Christmas the new year off teams work well together the company is profitable and growing

Cons

need to increase/improve efforts to find quality candidates to fill job openings, perhaps increase employee incentives for candidate recommendations

Advice to Management

keep holding town halls and listening to the employees

Pros

Great benefits, good customer service, some innovative technology, although now getting old. Good OEM hardware

Cons

Competition has now left them in the dust, as their R & D has fallen severely behind. Makes promises to customers on new products/service, but is always at minimum a year late on delivering. Leadership is constantly changing, resulting in you never know what is going to happen next mentality. Micro-Mgmt is now the model they use, and it is annoying in their approach, making it uncomfortable to work here. No doubt...

Advice to Management

Show real empathy to your employees, especially when it is you that has created your own negative work environment. Employees talk negatively about you, behind the scenes as a result. And stop repeating the same promises that you never deliver on, over and over through the years!

Pros

Hard to find some at this point. The situation is riddled with smoke and mirrors

Cons

This is much easier to expound upon. Disjointed and hostile environment. There is a major disconnect between Seattle and the outside employee and the customer. Compensation now favors the executive team and punishes the force that provides the revenue stream to the company. Seattle will get to it when they get to it attitude. It’s only a fire drill when it’s their fire drill. Company is way too focused...

Advice to Management

Find your identity. Current sentiments are that you care more about EBITDA and your bonuses than on addressing the staff and customer. In a saturated market you need to hold product and operations to the same standard as those in the trenches. When it’s harder to get things out the door for an interested customer than getting them to say yes (which is exceedingly becoming more difficult) you have missed the point.

Pros

Nice co-workers, reasonable work-life balance,

Cons

No 401K match, relatively lower base salary, toxic and uninformed executive management

Advice to Management

Trust the input from your staff. Rein-in some of the co-founders who lack technical chops, are nepotistic, toxic and make ill-informed decisions - just because they could.

Pros

Good work life balance, plenty of opportunities.

Cons

The pay is well below market rate and not competitive for a high cost of living city. There is a lot of turnover and lack of people who will propel the company forward (our computer system was very outdated).

Advice to Management

Improve your pay, benefits amd retirement packages. Those things matter a lot.

Pros

Emphasis on FUN and a supportive team environment. Lots of opportunities for advancement as turnover remains high.

Cons

Back office systems are painfully out of date and impede progress. A serious disconnect between product needs and deliverables.

Advice to Management

Invest in the software and tools that we need to be successful!

Pros

Company Holidays during the week of Christmas Management walks the talk. They want honest and open feedback and they act on it. The company is for work life balance. Work more than 40 hours when you want too or absolutely needed which is a very rare occurrence. Great social events during the work days. Waffle Wednesdays, Lunch and Learn, Happy Hour, Cinco De Mayo, Turkey Party Day before Thanksgiving and more....

Cons

Company wants to grow and hire more developers but not hire the people to support them like Scrum Masters, Technical Program Manager, etc Planning for the quarter and the year needs to improve but making strides to get better

Advice to Management

Continue to listen to and support your employees. Make the Company Vision and Mission better know to all employees and let them know how the work they are doing is aligns with the Vision and Mission,.

Pros

Overall / Culture: - Solid, stable company with a strong foothold in the industry - they aren't going anywhere - Good benefits - Awesome parties, very social office atmosphere - Generally some sort of catered event once every week or two - Great work/life balance Technology Org Specific: - Using great tech: GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Gitlab CI/CD, and more - Very willing to adopt new technology - Merit-based promotion...

Cons

Senior Leadership has too many priorities and TODOs without a clear focus or cohesive vision. This can make it difficult to focus on building quality software.

Advice to Management

Continue to work on sharing vision (even incomplete) with entire organization. Do less. Focus on quality.