BlueCat Reviews

Pros

Management always engaged with its employees. They do care. Coworkers super friendly and always willing to help Company doing great. Lots and lots of customers and always growing and not growing without making money like other companies do. They are actually making money. Good pay and benefits. Lots of opportunities to do what you like. Work/life balance is great for me as they give you lots of time off for after-hours work, weekend work, ability to work from home, 8 personal days and vacation days.

Cons

Nothing really. Unless you have worked somewhere better you find cons. I haven't

Pros

- The flexibility / freedom to take on projects. If you have an idea and build a case for it, management and the leadership team will support you. You'll have to seek out folks to help you achieve your goals but that's like anywhere else - The people! Being a global company, I had the opportunity to meet new people and make friends from all over the world. - The culture. The people team over my time at BlueCat really have done so much to build and improve the culture in the HQ office and also for remote employees. From catered lunches, to haunted houses on Halloween socials, they made going into work fun and enjoyable. - As with any growing company there are ebbs and flows of good times / bad times. In the slumps (which there may have been 2 in my 2 years there), the leadership team has done a great job in addressing employees' concerns head on. Continue to keep that up and I am confident that the company will continue on the right path. - Challenging work. DNS / DDI is a tough space to work in regardless of your department. If you enjoy problem-solving, collaborating with others in solving these challenges, then you'll love working at BlueCat. - Opportunities to grow. At least in my department there were many opportunities for progression / recognition. This may not be the case in other departments but we had a couple of folks get promoted or even make cross-departmental moves with full support of their managers / leadership.

Cons

- Product direction. To me this was a big challenge in the sense that the vision / strategic decision-making of why we built things the way we did weren't even really communicated clearly. They did hire a new CTO however so hopefully that will change in the next year. - If you're the type of person who doesn't like changing direction frequently or ambiguity, this isn't the place for you (or any other tech company really). There were a lot of changes in strategic direction which at times made it difficult to make progress on projects that were working. - HQ office location. If you live in the DT core, the office is at York Mills, so even though you do get the awesome tech office, you do miss the opportunity of being downtown in the tech hub of Toronto. However most managers were flexible if you wanted to attend events DT / or take networking meetings, or wfh.

Pros

Things are always changing which makes work interesting and challenging. The company is very innovative; with the tools and ways they support us as well as the office itself. Its comfortable and very modern; standing desks and tons of collaboration spaces. The company is always evolving and the leadership is always looking for ways to engage employees and action feedback. All coworkers like having fun together; charity events, office socials, soccer clubs, company days at Canada's wonder land, Pride events - the people here are fun

Cons

If your uncomfortable with change this might not be the company for you. Our customers drive innovation in our product and there is a high expectation on people to elevate how we support our clients and the business. I thrive in this environment but some people are challenged by it.