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Focus School Software

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"OK" is the inside joke for the company - Anonymous employee Focus School Software Employee Review

3.0
Sep 23, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

* Decent culture (education-focused, laid back work-place) * Free food once a week, social time * large office * meets your office requests (computer, keyboard, monitor etc whatever you want within reason) * great location * great stepping stone to bigger opportunities

Cons

* idiotic management with zero tech experience (hello your entire product is tech) * no direction whatsoever (nobody knows what is going on, ever) * management/CEO derides and insults employees * pure focus on development, systems viewed as a blocker * CEO's first job was writing the joke-of-a software his first company is based off of * "on call" means work whenever the CEO asks, even if it is on your day off * amount of work is rewarded instead of quality or being "done right" (IE bad code is rewarded over good code) * "senior" staff is a bunch of mediocre wannabe developers who wrote some javascript once and now lead entire projects * compensation is on par with a warehouse job with amazon, on the high end * new "going live" client going to ruin the company because they refuse to update to modern standards * favoritism is so strong it is insulting ~ Steven H. is excluded from my review of management, he is a glimmering star of hard-working hope in this desolate wasteland of mistakes.

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Focus School Software Response
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Dear Anonymous employee, I am very sorry to hear that you have were unhappy with your job. At Focus we value our employees and want to provide a happy and comfortable work environment at all times. This is why we hold team-building activities such as paid lunches every Friday, the annual Rays baseball game, an annual Christmas party, and set up an employee game room. I have an open door policy and when someone is upset about something, whether they feel over worked, underpaid or that they or others are treated unfairly, I want it to be brought to my attention. We want you to be happy and if you are not, come talk to me and I personally will be happy to help change that. We have serious commitments to our clients, and we do expect a lot out of our staff. Those who want to do the bare minimum will not likely succeed at Focus. As far as holding the opinion that the developers on staff are mediocre, that is unfortunate to hear. At Focus we look for employees that not only hold a lot of information and knowledge in software development and education, but like our company we want the people to be receptive and willing to continue to learn and grow as our company grows. Steven Harnois Director of Operations

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