ClutchAnalytics Reviews

First off, anyone who is researching Clutch Analytics should know that, despite the way their job listings look, they are not an independant company. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Windhaven Insurance, and most of the reviews from Clutch employees can be found under the listing for Windhaven Insurance, in Miami Florida. This is supposed to be a software company, but none of the management understands software, has a background in software or even, really, cares about software development best practices. Consequently, this company exhibits all of the problems that the software industry has worked so hard to overcome, namely: 1. No specs. You get vague descriptions of what needs to be done. After a great deal of pushing and prodding to get detail when you deliver what they asked for, they get upset because it doesn't have things that they just assumed should be there, even though these features were never mentioned. 2. There is zero respect for the fact that it takes time to develop software. They think it should all be instantaneous and is trivial. They change their mind on a daily basis, will often give contradictory demands and have no interest in working out the resolution of those conflicts ,they just expect the software to morph to whatever is needed at any point without any effort. 3. Software engineers tend to under estimate, especially in a situation where the requirements change on a -- literally-- weekly basis. Yet whatever your estimate you will be told that it is absurdly long. They will get you to compromise, and make promises that enable you to get the timeline down-- but once the delivery date is mentioned it is locked in stone. They won't care if they don't meet their end of the bargain. 4. There is zero respect for engineers. The company's executives think of themselves as lords and engineers (and all other worker bees) as peons. There is never a reason for a Lord to consider a peon's perspective, because peons are obviously inferior. This is deeply ingrained in the Windhaven culture. When there's disagreement, obviously you don't know what you're talking about, despite having done it for 10 years, while someone who doesn't know what an operating system is, is considered the authority, because they have a title. 5. They expect to be surrounded by "Yes men". If you tell them no too much, you get fired. While I was there, out of a team of 8 people, there were four people who were fired. Only one of those four was not performing as well as they could, but most of that was due to them being mismanaged. The other three were unjustifiable. This organization has been in existence about 2 years. At this point it has had approximately %300 turnover. That means there was one entire team that quit or was fired, was replaced, and that team has now quit or been fired, and is being replaced. They are constantly hiring because they cannot retain people. They cannot retain people because thy do not respect them, effectively abuse them by not letting them do their jobs while simultaneously constantly demanding more and more and getting angry when they don't get the unreasonable. There is no opportunity for advancement. Nobody with any power will be an Lord, only "business" people will fill those roles. Yet they often don't even hire competent business people. They do not promote from within. Benefits are a joke. PTO is severely lacking compared to industry standards. Our health insurance was cancelled with only a few days notice and we were put on a plan that has almost no doctors in Texas. This action shows the complete lack of respect they have for employees. You will be required to work long hours. They will promise you bonuses. The bonuses will not have an impact on your annual salary. The bonuses will not come close to compensating you for the additional time they will demand you put in. They are really big on "culture", but the culture is full of mantras that apply to worker bees, but that the senior management are not required to follow, and never do. They talk about "cultural fit" but they don't even practice what they preach. For example, one of the things they hit on a bunch at a quarterly meeting was "not making decisions based on the opinion of the highest paid person". Well, I don't know the pay, but they certainly make all decisions at the top and push them down, no matter how divergent they are from reality. It's really funny, because middle management knows this, and is forced to acknowledge it repeatedly, but then a week later they are doing it again. If insanity is making the same mistake over and over and expecting a different result, then this company is insanely run. Third turnover of staff. Dozens and dozens of projects that were broken because of the same bad management decisions. They showed zero ability to learn-- and worse, all problems were clearly the fault of peons in their opinion. We had a great team (thrice!) but there's no way all of them were incompetent.