Conservice Reviews

Annual raises are no longer guaranteed, and you're pretty lucky if it's more than a few cents. They pay the barest of minimums, and I have heard a department head state "some people complain that we pay enough that they're financially locked into staying with us. Well, that sounds more like something you should be grateful for to me." Meanwhile, those same employees are still having to get second jobs, or are living paycheck to paycheck. The current CEO is so incredibly out of touch that in an effort to "relate to having hard days at work" he bragged about how he was having a hard time figuring out a problem so he decided to leave for the day and go out on his boat to clear his head.

Four years here, consistently strong reviews, consistently exceeded expectations and somehow, consistently the same paycheck. For a while I told myself the tradeoff was fair: modest pay, but at least a sane work-life balance. Then they rolled out a 'productivity tool' that is, charitably, spyware with a UI, and that particular silver lining quietly disappeared. Product development would likely be a ghost town by now if the job market weren't quite so unforgiving, nothing keeps people in their seats like the absence of better options. Meanwhile, leadership has had something of a religious conversion to AI, and seems genuinely convinced that engineers are just a slightly more expensive version of a for-loop.