Chew em' up and spit em' out... - Anonymous employee Lockerz Employee Review

1.0
Sep 24, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The concept(s) for what their web site is supposed to be, along with the creativity of the design team, and the talent among several of their developers I worked with are one of the most talented groups I've worked with as a whole. Their business model, if executed properly could really take off. The nature of the business model means you will be always working with all of the newest technologies and will always be on top of all of the latest trends.

Cons

The core problem with this company stems from completely unrealistic expectations from the top down. There is a large disconnect between the artistic and technical sides of the business and very difficult to create a consensus between the two. You will be expected to work an obscene, ungodly number of hours... I am talking in the range of 80-120hrs per week. You can expect phone calls at 3am on your weekends (in which you will be working anyway). In the highly unlikely event you ever reach a milestone on time, it won't matter because the bar will just get raised higher and you will still be held accountable. They even fired one guy the day after he had a baby if that says anything! There is a very high turnover rate as they "churn and burn" through the talent they hire.

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3.0
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Pros

Lockerz acquired the company I built and was the CTO of, Plixi. Being an integral part of a KPCB backed company is a great learning experience for anyone that works for Lockerz. You'll hopefully grow lifelong relationships with the leaders, mentors, and investors of Lockerz. If you work hard, you get to work on things that interest you and have a big impact to a wide audience. Also, the pay was good for senior people.

Cons

There was always a Seattle vs. San Diego attitude once the Plixi team was acquired and there were two offices. Even two years after the acquisition when most of the people in Seattle were new, there was still this animosity between the two offices. Everything is 100% in Seattle now, which is a good thing for the company. Working remotely was never set up in the companies culture, thus the company never strongly benefited on the strengths of remote workers. For a small company, there were a lot of politics involved. People were more worried about he-said-she-said stuff rather than just working on the product and making it better for the users. For a startup-type company that doesn't have its product quite figured out yet, and doesn't have crazy growth traffic, there's no need to have a huge enterprise software/hardware stack. It was the opposite of the Lean Startup.

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