Unstable Company - Anonymous employee NextDocs Employee Review

2.0
Jul 24, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-The people are some of the brightest in the area. You can form great professional connections and friendships with them. -The office is really nice. -Lunch is served 3 days a week. -As a Microsoft partner, you get to work with some of the latest Microsoft technologies. Mostly .Net based and the product lives on SharePoint. -A lot of customers, and are in a pretty good position in the market. Could potentially take advantage of that.

Cons

-There are constant firings and massive layoffs about every 6 months. -Management does not like to hear advice. During one occasion an anonymous list of concerns was gathered by the employees. These concerns included: Performance reviews based off of nothing, bad bonuses, constant layoffs, no defined career path, no honesty from management concerning layoffs/performance of company, unrealistic deadlines, agile process thrown out when convenient, "hero" culture emerging. Management held a meeting to address these concerns, but in it they stated that they did not read the list yet, and if anyone is on the fence...please leave. -People that make check-ins at 2am are rewarded, while other intelligent and hard workers that put in 40 hours are either ignored, or at times forced out of the company. Even official rewards are given out with bullet points for working over 40 hours a week and putting in weekends often. -Employees are sometimes treated poorly. It is often stated that to the employee, it should be an honor to work at NextDocs. They do not seem to value that the employee has chosen to work for them. -A company that thought it would be growing rapidly at this point is instead shrinking. This first happened with the massive layoffs, and then when people tested the booming market. -Lastly, HR posts reviews on here.

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5.0
Mar 23, 2015
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Pros

Some of the best and smartest people I have ever worked with. The departments speak to each other and everyone has a great attitude.

Cons

The traffic going home was sometimes challenging. I am an early person, so I did not need to deal with morning traffic. The views from the office help offset the traffic.

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Many thanks for taking the time to complete this review, we are looking to engage more with candidates and colleagues a like - and striving for our recruitment, on-boarding and career development plans to reach the highest possible standards. NextDocs HR
5.0
Jul 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Here's a list of the pros: - It's a fairly small sized company, so there's a lot of room for quick growth. - The ability to work from home occasionally. - The opportunity to work on fun and challenging projects. - Fun team events every now and then. - Free lunch three days a week. - Employs a lot of smart and high profile people. - No pressure on getting work done over the weekend or on extended hours. - Ability to work in a small company culture, where your voice is easily heard. - A Microsoft partner. - Won a lot of awards in the industry. - One of the leading companies in the Life-sciences Content Management Solutions for Regulated industries. - There's probably more pros, but I will stop here to let you discover the rest on your own :)

Cons

Here's the list of Cons: - The pay could be better. But the salary range is flexible, so if you prove how good you are, you will be able to expect a salary increase. - 1-2 years back, some employees were not happy because of the management and the set of layoffs. That caused a domino effect on everyone else in the company. Employees talk about what they don't like and unintentionally convince other employees the same. That hurt the reputation of the company's work environment. However, now the management is much better and well aware of the previous mistakes. For more than a year now, we haven't seen anything negative about the management and the company decisions.

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NextDocs Response
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Many thanks for taking the time to complete this review, we are looking to engage more with candidates and colleagues a like - and striving for our recruitment, on-boarding and career development plans to reach the highest possible standards. NextDocs HR
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