Retina Reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)
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Silvian Centiu

58% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Retina has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Retina employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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55 reviews
1.0
Dec 2, 2016

Bad Management and CEO

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Only good thing about this company is the salary and occasional travel, there isn't much to say about the company itself. Employees are promised project and that the company is doing well but are let go as soon as projects are over.

Cons

The company has no structure. The CEO says no micro managing and that you are your own boss but you will be penalized for any decision made not consulting management. CEO has no communication skills, extremely rude and insults employees intelligence and abilities. Constant mixed messages will be given. Extreme favouritism as CEO resides in California and only knows employees out of that office, there are locations in Canada, Romania, Spain. There is no real training methods, Business Analysts are hired and expected to do QA or PM duties and fired if they do not understand because of lack of training. Most employees work remotely and cannot build relationships with co-workers. No work life balance as you are expected to be available at all times. You must use your own cell phone for all calls, printer, internet, etc. All in all worst company I have ever worked for, CEO is extremely condescending, they set you up for failure and use and keep you for immediate projects.

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Retina Response
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Hi, I'm sorry you had a bad experience with Transiris, and I'd like to address a few things you talked about in your review. You mentioned that consultants are promised projects and let go when they finish a project. I'm sorry that you feel this way, but we never promise projects will happen at a certain time, and unfortunately there is occasional down time when consultants are not utilized and instead help out on internal projects. Also, hiring someone for a project and then letting them go once finished is something that we have never done, except in very rare instances when someone is hired as a contractor for a specific project, rather than a full-time employee. We have never let a talented, qualified full-time consultant go for lack of project work. Consultants have been let go due to personnel issues, not lack of work. You also mentioned that employees are expected to be available at all times. This is not the case. Employees are expected to be available during regular business hours, although the focus is more getting the work done rather than what hours you work. Consultants may find that they need to be available during the client's business hours (for ex., a consultant on EST may need to shift his/her schedule to accommodate a client on PST), but this is common in consulting work. Regarding structure, you're right, we did not have a hierarchy structure set-up until recently as we were a small company that observed a flat management structure. We grew significantly in 2016, and decided to implement a management structure and a few formal processes in Fall 2016. As a small but growing company, we've had some growing pains as we scale our processes (as most companies do), but we've made a lot of great changes to get things on track. You mentioned that many people work remote and may feel isolated. This often occurs for remote consultants who are not on projects and it's understandable that you might've felt isolated. We're doing things to correct this as well, including encouraging our employees to have lunches with their colleagues. We also just had a retreat for all of our Europe employees, and are planning a similar retreat for our North America employees to get everyone fro different locations together. We're actively working to find solutions in this area as well. Again, I'm sorry you had a bad experience, and wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!
1.0
May 18, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Met some very talented, kind-hearted people

Cons

no management or support of any kind. I've never seen a company tout itself as such a strong supporter of work/life balance, equity, and fairness and then turn around and prove themselves as the complete opposite. The massive amount of employee turnover is certainly a testament to this.

2.0
Mar 9, 2022

What started out great did not keep...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

At first everything seemed very promising. A fast-growing company with offices around the world, offering a variety of services to a neat list of clients. My interview process was impeccable. The culture manager at the time was conducted by this incredibly charming guy (possibly Irish) who had a way of engaging, explaining, handing-over to the next interviewer that felt seamless and absolutely unparalleled. This factored in on my decision of joining, I figured someone like that being at the front of a company was a good sign. My onboarding process was well organized, there was lack of clarity on SOPs but the teams were very helpful, talented and great to work with.

Cons

As time went by a number of people started to leave; senior leadership, team leads, subject matter experts, colleagues were dropping. It became an uneasy environment to work in for a number of reasons. I couldn't see growth even though communications were sent out reassuring the company's good standing and a sudden number of title changes for some people.

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