Really smart folks - Senior Software Engineer Modus Create Employee Review

1.0
Feb 25, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Before Covid, I'd say remote work, but nowadays you can find remote opportunities everywhere. There are many smart engineers in here.

Cons

- Leadership praises over-work. One time at an all-hands meeting leadership was putting as an example one engineer who was on PTO with his family at the beach and got a call from work to resolve some issues with an angry client. - Below market compensation. During my time here I talked with several W2 employees about salaries, we all were getting paid less than the average market compensation, but the worse is for international contractors! They really get pay peanuts. - The taco culture. This is really funny honestly, people give digital tacos to each other for small accomplishments and there's a leaderboard!

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Modus Create Response
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Thank you for leaving such candid feedback. We are constantly looking to improve the employee experience at Modus and your thoughts on culture and compensation are especially important to us. Over-work is definitely something we don’t encourage at Modus as we understand life comes before anything else. Your feedback truly helps us understand that we must be very careful with the behaviors we are praising as they can be interpreted in ways we did not intend to. We appreciate your feedback regarding compensation and will take this as an opportunity to revisit our rates. I’d like to discuss this more to better understand how we can improve our employee and contractor experience. Please send me an email at stephanie.myrie@moduscreate.com or respond here, whichever is most comfortable for you.

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