Great people, room for improvement - Anonymous employee Tack Mobile Employee Review

2.0
Jul 19, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing culture: People are fantastic, workspace is super cool, cooking competitions and potlucks, BBQs, stocked kitchen, flexible PTO, make your own hours (within reason). Everyone is a professional and treated like an adult. No excessive management oversight or helicoptering. Great support of work-life balance, no one is expected to live there or work OT unless a project is on fire.

Cons

Company plan for growth and employee engagement seems faulty. There is a lot of sitting around with not much to do with constant fear of projects ending and nothing else lined up. Inter-office communication seems spotty; the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing. It's a small office so this seems bizarre. Flip side of such little management oversight is not knowing if what you are doing is serving the project or the organization. The managers have a "no news is good news" MO. Checkins are largely superficial, no real feedback unless a project is going wrong, then someone steps in to do damage control with very little follow up after on how company/individuals can do better in the future.

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Tack Mobile Response
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Any involuntary staff changes are extremely difficult on both sides of the table, especially when there is no fault involved. We do our best to ensure we treat anyone in this situation the sane way we would want to be treated if it were us, especially as many of us have been in the same position in our own careers. In hindsight in these three cases we succumbed too much to the conventional wisdom and thanks to those involved have learned from the experience and are indebted all of you who were gracious enough to provided extensive feedback afterwards. Communcication in an agency is a challenge, and we're comfortable saying we do it better than most, although we can improve. This has become a priority and area on investment (in every sense). Having one or two people on a project is the exception rather than the rule, and were sorry your experience was negative. While agencies have sometimes a (deserved) reputation for "rubber banding" or hiring and firing with client demand, we're proud to not do that. We appreciate your feedback, and I personally read and consider all of it and am grateful for the feedback received since,

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5.0
Aug 19, 2021
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Pros

We have weekly waffles at the office! We're a small group of mobile designers and developers that get along pretty well. I feel able to communicate openly with my team, which after working in corporate jobs, is refreshing. I feel like my coworkers all pull their weight and everyone is supportive of each other. Company culture is 10/10.

Cons

It's not a con, but we used to do "lunch and learns," we should bring those back!

5.0
Feb 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Great co-workers who are all friendly and helpful which is important in a company this size -Great work-space with a stocked kitchen, open office environment but also allow working from home when needed. -Plenty of opportunities to take initiative. -Many projects are not 100% defined at what needs to be done so input on how to get things done seems to be taken very well. -Plenty of new work incoming. -Various internal project going on that you are welcome to contribute to if you desire, things like a display made of ping pongs to an automated status board that informs everyone of the latest happenings in the office. -IoT focus so there are occasional bonuses along those lines to help all the employees be more involved with IoT at home as well as just at work, things like Echo Dots for the employees to take home and experiment with. -Always looking at improving communication between management and employees which means new tools are occasionally tried out. This is also a Con if you are not flexible to change. -No issues with talking directly to the CEO or anyone else in a management role.

Cons

-Some clients request our employees work at their office so you may occasionally be stuck working in a different environment than Tack's office. -Not the best workplace if you are the type that needs a to-do list given to you for what you should be doing. -Tools used to communicate between management and employees are occasionally changed while trying to find the best one for the company as a whole, this is both Pro and Con as it shows things are not just going to be stagnant in a poor working tool like some larger corporations are at.

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