Good, but lacking some boundaries - Back End Developer Drymax Solutions Employee Review

I was notified that someone posted a review and they thought it was me. I had no plans of writing a review for Drymax, but I'll add my thoughts to this page, as it seems to be a company tradition at this point. I started out my Drymax journey by being sent off on an ill-conceived trip to Colorado. No one knew what we were doing there, the project was a farce, and the clients quickly realized what I came to understand as well: this company was... different. All of the previous reviews are true to an extent. The business was poorly managed, the projects were hectic, and the overall vibe of the workplace was paradoxically too lax and too stringent with expectations. All of that is true, but there are other truths. The CEO is a visionary searching for the right people to enact it. Behind the veneer of bloviating platitudes and outright absurdity, there is something real that you will not find in most companies. The CEO will not always be honest--in fact, he might downright lie--but it's not a lie to him because he has 100% faith that what he says will come to pass. While that might seem like insanity to some people, I found that there was something to be admired about that kind of brash optimism. I worked at Drymax for two years and was one of the longest-tenured employees. I would not have stuck around for that long if I did not think there was something worth trying for. The technology is real, but it needs a lot of work. The goals are poorly defined and unobtainable, but you are still offered a chance. The pay is terrible and the benefits are null, but if you have the right mindset and grit, you will be able to chart a path for yourself. At its worst, Drymax Solutions is one man's vanity project. At its best, Drymax Solutions is a collaborative journey into the unknown. You will be mopping floors one day, and pitching tech to executives of fortune 100 companies the next. You will be chiseling fermented soybeans out of a hopper one week, and traveling across the country with a rented trailer full of million dollar tech the following Monday. You will drink beer and smoke cigars in the middle of the night while you curse and sweat your way through unclogging an auger full of rotten corn. You will cough your lungs out from the dust exposure, burn yourself with high-voltage RF arcing, and violate ten OSHA regulations a day. You will leave with scars, and stories. So unlike the other reviews, I will give this company a positive rating. In many ways, Drymax Solutions is a microcosm of an America that has faded in the wake of corporate nihilism and the oppressive polish of political correctness. It is rough, it ambiguously legal, it is dirty, grimy, and quite literally held together with duct tape. The CEO is undoubtedly delusional, the workers are cynical, and the atmosphere is full of profanity, rot and dead mice. But it is what you make of it. Ultimately, this company and its success rests on you. And maybe, if the heavens align themselves and the cosmos orient into perfect synchrony, you will get really f***ing rich, and then the CEO isn't delusional. Then he was a genius visionary the whole time, thanks to you. You might even get your own Ted Talk. And that is the American dream.

The pay is awful, but stick around, and you'll get it up fast enough.

Coworkers are nice and fun to talk to

Not much say in research or design, everything is overruled by the boss and ultimately you just feel like you are his puppet to build. Time is really limited, you are given too much work to actually complete at once and you are forced to work sloppy or carelessly to keep up. The initial proposed work for the job is much different from the actual work. You do much more cleaning then actual engineering and the boss constantly will ask you to stop what you are doing and clean rather then preform vital experiments. The boss is very condescending and doesn't show much if any respect to his employees. It felt as if the boss did not care about employees or employees time or employees knowledge and would overrule what ideas the employees would offer in design and research You are forced to work long shifts and weekends seemingly at whim of the boss. I guess this is a positive cause you might actually get the amount of money you should be payed from the overtime. You get to clean a lot, which is great if you want to learn how to better use the vacuum or want to be better at sweeping the floor. 0/5