Leadership cannot focus and prioritize - Anonymous employee Engine Yard Employee Review

3.0
Dec 2, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Competitive Salary - Laid back work environment, good work/life balance - Colleagues are generally smart and nice - Lots of autonomy in your work - Well regarded brand in the startup world, so it's a good training grounds if you want to go work at another startup - They finally fired John Dillion

Cons

- Execs cannot focus or prioritize, so resources are spread thin - They tried to be everything to everyone, with the attempt to be a polyglot company, which is not a good strategy with the engineering resources they have. Ended up poorly executing those strategies. - They try to save money by hiring more inexperienced people who have no idea what they are doing, which is a burden on people who are more experienced and properly trained in their function. - Lack of processes and discipline on enforcing the little processes they do have leads to chaos when trying to get anything done efficiently - Extremely high turnover makes it difficult to maintain any momentum, lots of talented execs and employees have left - New CEO ended up cutting costs through layoffs. Let go talented employees and kept some incompetent ones.

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5.0
Jan 13, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I loved working here- fast paced and forward thinking company with great leadership.

Cons

The PaaS space has some competition.

4.0
Feb 12, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The new CEO is actually really great. Engine Yard needed this. The choices he's made are ones that should have been made a long time ago. I think he also pays attention to what we're good it, which has always been a gripe of mine. He's learning what we're able to do well and trying to build on that. He wants to keep our big customers and figure out how to make our platform work for the people that need it most. Company culture has rebounded a bit since the layoffs. Hiring is resuming with focus on engineering (yay).

Cons

When you deal with so many people's core businesses, security is very tight. Though it's expected, it can be cumbersome on a day to day basis. The time needed to accomplish fixes of underlying issues is still hard to come by. Company perks have been cut back recently, but this is to be expected. The agile methodology that has been adopted recently can be cumbersome and overly specific at times. Allow for engineering creativity in solving challenges rather than exhausting the challenge before it gets to the engineers.

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