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Ask Applications

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No transparency, no vision and short term thinking - Software Engineer Ask Applications Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2016
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Pros

- Most of the people I worked directly with were smart and friendly. - Free snacks. - They try to use the latest tools However, I would not recommend it even to my worst enemies.

Cons

The higher management treated the rest of employees as herd of cattle. There is no transparency at all, so the work environment is bit creepy where you never feel safe and settled in. The hiring managers painted the picture that the company is doing great and wanted to expand because they have a lot features and ideas to build. However, after joining and leaving my other full time job, the higher management decided reduce expenses by cutting on resources. So I was laid off along with about 30 others. Even the lay off process was unprofessional and disrespectful, and shows that they only care about much they can keep in there pocket. Everyone was called into one meeting and given a 5 minute speech informing us that it would be our last day of employment. Using cutting technologies was great. However, there was disconnect on the actual requirements and some of the developers worked as solo cowboy coders, so it was hard to make code reusability.

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5.0
Sep 20, 2021
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Pros

- Manager was so helpful and sweet, made sure the work I was doing was on my skill level and also something that I enjoyed - Team was so welcoming and friendly - Loved interacting with other interns - Helped me build up my confidence and skills - Paid internship!!!! Need I say more, felt like they really valued me and my time

Cons

Nothing I can think of. I'm super grateful for the opportunity they gave me, especially since I didn't feel like I was "good enough" to get paid for what I did if that makes sense

3.0
Mar 28, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The NYC offices are possibly the most beautiful, most luxurious and most well equiped offices you can find in NYC. Every Friday in July and August you get to go home at 2pm. Good size company, sometimes it still feels like a startup. But they have the financial resources of an established company. Upper management is easily approachable.

Cons

Don't believe the 'digital snacks' spiel. They make 95% of their money from toolbars. It is not fun to explain to your friend engineers 'what your company does'. Technically not very stimulating. Most projects are toolbars, widgets or very simple websites or mobile apps. Management doesn't like to take risks. No clear direction. Management likes to start new projects and kill them off if they are not profitable after 12 months. If your projects gets killed off you get either fired or moved to a different team.

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