Senior Software Engineer - Senior Software Engineer Elementum Employee Review

5.0
7 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

In addition to awesome perks, catered meals, ping-pong, pool, outings, etc., they have more benefits than you'd expect from a Fortune 100 company. They consistently hire experts, who are also personable, considerate and truly care about the company and each other. It's fun. I've worked for 4 Fortune 100 companies and 3 previous startups. I've seen these companies struggle to create this culture, but to succeed it needs to come from the top where you must trade ego for involvement, lip-service for commitment and mediocrity for determination. Anyone can freely talk to the leadership staff anytime because they embody this culture. They call it being "an Elementum", but it's really just being a good person and doing the best job possible all the time. This startup is already succeeding and will continue to succeed for a number of reasons. But the main one is I don't see them doing any of the wrong things that caused the other ones to fail. This makes me more motivated to help in anyway possible to make it happen.

Cons

It's a startup! Schedules are tight and there's always too much work to do. You're always required to prioritize what's important to the company vs' yourself, and you sometimes need help figuring this out. However if you like heavy supervision, are not knowledgeable enough in your area, or are not self-driven to understand the bigger picture, than a startup might be the right place.

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5.0
20 Dec 2022
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Pros

Really committed to you Committed to company culture Great pay and benefits

Cons

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1.0
23 Oct 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay wasn't half bad and some times the lunches were decent

Cons

Lets be clear, Elementum is NOT a start up Per Nader's own words, Elementum has been around for awhile but never amounted to much. Almost the entire work force was laid off after years of supporting a garbage product. Then they attempted to re-invent themselves as a "supply chain" product. Within the yearish I was there it went from supply chain to a Service Now knock off and finally to piggy backing off of Snowflake to make themselves look like they are a legit data analytics company. And now "AI Driven Workflow"? These are just catchy words and phrases. It means nothing. Their product is garbage. Countless times you hear about big issues from big name customers and the "fix" was band aid on an gun shot wound. We were all told to log into the app store and give the app a 5 star rating, but it was just plain bad. The app is a glorified ticketing system. Add to it the relentless turn over. It seemed like once a week someone was fired and there was NEVER any plan in place to replace them. Within 1 month the main guy for software development was canned and then the director of engineering was gone, out of the blue, no warning. I ran all of the IT and was kept in the dark about most everything, including off boards. I was finally term'd after I turned down wanting to take on more work and roles without any additional pay in the engineering department. I am not an engineer and I did not want to be one, so I was let go. Fun story, Nader had the habit of just randomly showing up with new computers and I would literally be the last to know. There was a situation with a computer that we could not account for. This led to me having my final payouts being delayed for just about a month with absolutely no word from anyone from the company. I had to hound the HR rep almost weekly.

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