Nice Place to work - Software Engineer LawRoom Employee Review

The leaders of the organization are well equipped to pull their teams to success. Each department leader leads by example and contributes greatly to the passion that motivates their colleagues. Employees at LawRoom are intrinsically motivated to do good in the world; the passion and commitment to educate people on ethical matters is easily felt in the office. Whether they encourage one and other or work over hours to meet the quarterly goal, the overall company has well established a culture of hard work and teamwork. Everyone in the company is tied to the underlying core mission of the company. People are willing to make room for mistakes and learn from their mistakes. The diversity in the office is incredible. Natives of Canada, India, Spain, Italy, Morocco, and other countries share their global perspectives everyday. This diversity has added a lot of value to debates, strategic decisions. The cross cultural ambiance in the office has increased job performance. My experience in LawRoom was priceless. I learned something new everyday, and was given an opportunity to share my ideas and perspectives with the decision makers of the company. I had a one-to-one mentorship with my manager who assigned me various projects. My manager made sure that I understood the objectives and the importance of the projects. I got to see how every project I worked on affected the company. LawRoom is truly a unique place to work that is a great fit for anyone that is intrinsically motivated to contribute great things to the world, and is willing to work hard to grow the company to its potential. Thank you ! Overall strengths: Visionary leaders, Heterogeneous team, a great cause, passionate company culture, huge potential. A hardworking company with great leaders.

Weaknesses: Lack of resources, benefits and perks. Since the company is still growing, there was a little disorganization across departments. The channel of communication from department to department was not the smoothest.

In general, a very talented and hardworking group of people. Developers work on courseware and LMS tools that pose genuinely fun technical and intellectual challenges, and get a lot of say into technology and architectural decisions. The technology stack is exciting and cutting edge. The training products are pro-social, and make a difference in the world that one can be proud of. The location is great: very close to bart and to the 680 freeway and it's in a great building.

Despite some of the other reviews here I feel employees are treated quite well, but I do see the following: Figuring out how to scale as the business grows very quickly is sometimes stressful. Compensation is sometimes not up to par with bay area levels (they're a smaller company competing with giants for tech resources). In some applications, legacy code with significant technical debt poses maintainability and extensibility challenges. The Dev team is still working through a transition to Agile methodology and needs to further improve story writing and backlog grooming processes.