Resume Rotter - Stay Away - Software Engineer TechSmith Employee Review

1.0
Sep 4, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Free pop - Pays higher than market average - "Job stability"

Cons

- Being overpaid while doing absolutely nothing to move forward in your technical career. What type of people does that retain? - No sense of innovation, just keep doing whatever you were doing in the past. - Don't be "that guy/girl" with a new idea. No one wants to put in more time. - Change product direction every two months. And the hardest working people who keep up with that, who want to be part of a great product, end up walking away. - Have no product direction. Start a project and kill it before it ever has a chance to get anywhere. Then place the software engineers that were on that product on a terrible CMS solution as a day job. And overpay them. - No branding. People who use Camtasia and Snagit have no idea who Techsmith is. - Seniority based on time and not experience + effort. - Management is too proud and doesn't want to take any real blame.

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TechSmith Response
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Our developers put their heart and soul into our products, so I completely understand how crushing it must feel for the business to make a decision to eliminate a product line. We’ve had to make some hard decisions to ensure we have aligned resources on the best growth opportunities for the business. In spite of resourcing changes, growing our talent remains a huge priority. Our employees benefit from exposure to a range of platforms (mobile, web, desktop) and advanced digital media technologies in both a B2B and B2C commercial software environment. We also make significant investments in formal training. As I write this we are actively running third party training programs for general management, product strategy, marketing, lean, and agile. In fact, it’s not uncommon for us to develop our people so well that we lose them to top tier technology companies – we lost someone to Apple just this month. We celebrate when this happens and wish them the best. Congratulations and good luck with your future endeavors. Wendy Hamilton CEO

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