Could be better - Anonymous employee AppDirect Employee Review

2.0
Oct 6, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Working with very smart, talented and exceptional people. - Friendly atmosphere and good events that brings the team together. - Great office and good perks Silicon Valley style. Fridge is full and there is a foosball table. All that kind of stuff! - Good salary but it depends on how well you negotiate at the beginning. - Great customers with big names.

Cons

- Very talented employees but almost all under utilized and undervalued. Engineering is undervalued compared to business and growth. - You are likely not going to learn anything new or work on anything interesting if you are already a seasoned engineer. If you don't immediately need money ask for a tour of the code base, take your time and evaluate then decide. Pretty much like any other job ! - If you are a junior engineer I recommend you start somewhere you can learn good engineering practices. or make sure to allocate sometime to read and contribute to open source and pick up clean code to learn something other than if-driven development. - Recognition and raises are terrible. - YES men are running the show from a closed circle of 'expert beginners'. If you don't know the this 'term', search for "Rise of the expert beginner" and try hard to not become one if you decide to take a job at AppDirect. - Townhalls are just a Void and their sole function is to help with the egos of executives. - Executives live in a bubble. Work is not engineering focused and engineering issues are not seen or addressed. - People who have never been coding find it appropriate to have strong opinion on and/or make technical decisions.

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AppDirect Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience here at AppDirect, we have grown tremendously in the past couple years, adding hundreds of new employees, and major customers across the globe. We are aware the growth process is challenging and are sorry that you found it so painful. We are working hard to improve both our communications and our Engineering org and with the assistance of the smart and talented people you mention, we will make AppDirect an ever better place to work! We would be interested in discussing your feedback further and encourage you to reach out to HR@appdirect.com

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