Exceeds Expectations! - Anonymous employee CloudLock Employee Review

5.0
Mar 18, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I just recently joined CloudLock and my experience so far has exceeded expectations! The senior executive team has done a great job of fostering a collaborative, open door environment. Like any exciting start-up, people are busy but they still find the time to help the newcomers, and seem genuinely happy to be at work. There is a palpable shared passion for the company's success. Of particular note, communication is exceptional. In my first 3 weeks with CloudLock, I participated in an in-depth new hire training, an all hands executive briefing, and a Go to Market update that all employees were invited to attend.

Cons

It's difficult to come up with cons. I come from a Windows world so getting used to a Mac and Google Apps was at first challenging but there are plenty of tutorials out there.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Dec 16, 2015
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Pros

Cloudlock is a very friendly place: people take the time to get to know you as a person, not just a "human resource". The company is like a family, and playing video games together or walking along the river kindles a very tight-knit culture.

Cons

There is an implicit pressure to work long hours: 60 and 70 hour weeks are the norm. Nobody wants to appear "lazy" by leaving the office at 5 PM, or by not responding to work emails while at home. The company culture rewards those who work harder, rather than those who work smarter. In addition, the software that runs Cloudlock is held together with band-aids and prayers. The management doesn't want to invest in quality software engineering practices, preferring to ship features as fast as possible. There's never time to write documentation or automated tests, and as a result, software stability goes out the window. The process of testing changes is a slow and painful one, which sucks the joy out of writing software. Oh, and training and mentoring? Hah. There's no time for that right now, we have to fix this critical problem on production!

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CloudLock Response
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Sorry to hear your experience was not a positive one at CloudLock. While we appreciate your acknowledging our company culture in a positive light, clearly you had some concerns regarding our engineering processes and expressed concerns over work/life balance issues. We are always striving to learn from current and former employee feedback, so we truly appreciate you taking the time to write a review. We are a fast growing start-up in a fast growing market, and do have a lot of people wearing a lot of different hats working on things that perhaps similar roles in larger companies do not. This does result in some long hours sometimes, but while we do work hard we have been hyper-conscious of work/life balance and continue to make great strides in balancing the two. Hyper-growth start ups are not for everyone - and while yes, we do have a lot of the fun "perks" we are also working really hard and passionately towards something great. Part of the learning process in this kind of environment is continuing to learn from feedback, mistakes and successes. Our engineering team has continued to make incredible leaps and bounds over the past two years, as evidence by both the incredible products they produce, the explosive customer adoption, and the team themselves. Thanks again for your feedback - as our journey continues your feedback and from other past and current CloudLock team members will be key in helping to drive our future. Gil
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