Awful management and no room for being creative - Front End Developer VizExplorer Employee Review

1.0
6 Apr 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some nice benefits. Easy to get a visa. Nice and open-minded people (multi-cultural office). Great HR team.

Cons

1 - This company is supposed to be doing Datavizualization and by doing so, put the user in the center of every process. In fact, User Experience is never considered, and even worth, we never get the chance to get to know a real world user. The result is of course a heavily hard to use and ugly interface that only engineer with a PHD in Data Analysis might be able to use. 2 - Doing "agile" on the paper but actually doing everything but Agile (constantly changing priorities, people, and even project during sprints). 3 - Impossible deadlines and zero transparency from management team. 4 - Big-headed and condescending manager(s) without any support for the development team with a constant "shut up and do what I am asking you to do" approach. 5 - Absolutely no room for being creative (and not even interested by creative people) 6 - Horrible code base and crazy technical choices 7 - Impossible to have a clear picture of where the company and the products are going.

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5.0
3 May 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

great team; management communicates well; strive for good work/life balance

Cons

benefits could be better but decent overall;

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VizExplorer Response
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Your time and effort to post is appreciated. It is wonderful that our aim to communicate well and maintain a strong work/life balance is noticed. If you have specific ideas about how benefits could be improved, we would love to hear them. Again, thanks.
2.0
3 Apr 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The grunt work team is fantastic to work with. They are great people, who try very hard to help accomplish goals.

Cons

The upper management chose to hide vital information from everyone until the company basically died. At no point did any of the financial numbers presented in various all-hands meetings indicate how bad the company was doing. This lead to reduction of the entire staff to around 5 people. Everyone who saw the actual numbers were able to see the writing on the wall and leave before the implosion. Everyone else was left blindsided.

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