Atrocious Place to work.... - Anonymous employee ACTV8me Employee Review

1.0
19 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free Lunch And Snacks was really all they offered as "Perks" And the Salary was good, enough to deal with the nonsense. Most of the regular people were nice and ok to work with, but the company as a whole was a mess.

Cons

There was no leadership at this company, the senior executives were completely computer illiterate trying to manage software development; which was exacerbated by their complete lack of leadership qualities in general. They had no real clear view of the product or services and it reflects upon the lack of real partnership with outside companies, something that falls squarely on senior management. The software app and network system were riddled with bugs and errors and for all I know is up to this date insecure. But since the management has no real understanding about the technology they are developing over and over again the software developers blinded them with technobabble and obtuseness to decide when and where they want to work and what aspects of the program they care about. This has lead to alot of issues in QA and basic security and I would be worried that any outside partner who uses this technology to offer real monetary items might be hacked and those prizes stolen. The senior staff here were completely deaf and unwilling to cooperate or collaborate with anyone else unless it fits their agenda and their goals. Internal politics and egos control this company and the CEO was a capricious, egocentric, and completely out of touch with what is going on. I witness several incidents where programmers and other managers flat out misrepresented or obscured data and situations to make themselves look better or to avoid doing something. If you need money and don't care about what your doing, milk these guy like the CEO is milking his investors. If you are looking for a good company to work for with a future, this definitely isn't the place for you.

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Pros

As hard as it is to come up with anything positive to say about this company, I’d say the compensation was the only upside.

Cons

First, I’d like to point out that I’m absolutely sure that any positive reviews left on Glassdoor for this company have been written by upper management to make up for all the negative reviews. With that being said, if you value your happiness and mental well-being, then this is not the place for you. Actv8me is hands down the most toxic place I have ever had the displeasure of working for and I do not say that lightly. Upper management fosters this toxic culture by finding any excuse to reprimand and belittle it’s employees. One member of upper management in particular will literally go out of their way to throw their colleagues under the bus, going as far as to fabricate situations on their quest to sabotage others. In addition to the sour dispositions and hostility you must endure, be prepared to suffer through a dreary work environment where everyone’s misery and discontent rubs off on one another. As far as business prospects go, nearly every lead the company manages to grasp quickly dissipates as the tech is constantly being upstaged by competitors and not unique enough that prospective clients can’t do some iteration of it on their won. With this being a “tech start up” you would think that management would be more forward thinking, but everything about the company screams boomer mentality.

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