boring and bland but with dangling carrot - I Tick and I Travel Over the Hotwire Hotwire Employee Review

2.0
May 3, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

great place to have a child, very fair. great place if you really want to disappear so to speak. i.e. get little done and just coast. a ton of people have left so a lot of openings are there for people to rise into to. lax hours. some people come at 11 and leave at 4, even a the high up. great stock grants and options over there years to keep you chugging along. very generous bonus which keeps us around! clem (president) is really a great guy who i think is trying to handle things the best he can.

Cons

lot of management heaped on top of more management. it seems like there is a 1-4 or 1-3 ratio of managers to contributors in some departments. so that is a super big pain in getting anything done. way too much process. they tried agile and that did not work with those involved. so now they have a new thing called queues which is like mini waterfalls but is turning out to be just as slow and painful. but with just less people in each one. a lot of deadweight even at the high high up. they really can take any fun out of anything while getting big big salaries. a lot of people have been leaving as well which is really sad and ironically its a lot of smart people who are going. so the weak ones stay. ugh.

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5.0
Jun 5, 2025
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Pros

Great people and a relaxed working environment. I appreciate the time people take to work together on a project. No egos whatsoever.

Cons

My commute was my only problem as I was at least an hour away by car. Other than that, I don't have much to complain about.

4.0
Dec 8, 2025
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Pros

Everyone is very friendly and the place has a family atmosphere.

Cons

Commissions can be small for the amount of work It takes to close a sale

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