Working at Slower

Salary + bonus seemed competitive, until I found out no one was receiving their bonuses. Like, no one. Made me realize how much I appreciate my subsequent job!

7 days a week grind culture - like, everyone on my team was literally on 7 days a week. Extremely minimal PTO. Thrown into the fire with clients, with no support from managers. Worthless, pep-rally meetings, accomplishing nothing, except celebrating the employees who were the most available 24/7 and unhealthily busy. Promise of 401k, not delivered. Secretive culture: supposedly ~3000 employees (which I flat-out do not believe, in the end), but ZERO information on anything at all with the rest of the company, beyond my ~50 person group - very strange, unsettling and annoying. Interesting character, the CEO, but very hot/cold re: friendliness/kindness, super cagey, and seemingly insanely greedy. Manager: very charismatic and seemingly a nice guy, but completely unsupportive of employess, and also seemingly super greedy.

Next to none, except my team's onsite in Irvine, CA. Which was super lavish, with mostly great speakers, top-flite catering, and an over-the-top hotel room. It was mostly a very good experience (if grindingly long days, but...fair), but made me realize just how profitable this company actually is (vs: ultra-craptastic life/work balance and not following through on promised benefits e.g. 401k and bonuses).

Not much at all, except their ability reel in talented employees and lucrative contracts (except...with no benefit to folks in the trenches)

#1) ransparency. Sure it's a privately held company, but employees deserve to know at least a sliver of what's really going on. #2) Not grinding employees into the ground. No matter what you do, you will not be recognized for anything apart from destroying yourself with the workload.

The usual, for a tech position. Interview process was a joke - won't bother to get into it.

Seemed great, with the promised big bonus, but bonuses did not happen. Without that, it was average (not taking the workload into consideration). I'm on to much greener pastures now, with a MUCH better culture.

More diverse than the average tech team, for sure

Woring at Slower being in my past.

The experience I gained working with assigned clients

Missing my 401k money that was deducted from my paycheck, pay statements, W2 forms and proof the money deducted from my paychecks for taxes was sent to the IRS and state of California.

None

There is nothing to like

Management should follow basic state and federal employment laws.

Bonuses are never paid. Excuses are made instead of solid feedback and conversations are punted. Someone is always 'working on it'.

They use a great bait and switch to attract great talent, but cannot retain them.

Honesty and integrity. The lack of it at Slower is why I left.

Working alongside skilled people.

Slightly isolated

Creative freedom, challenging deliverables

They provide a lot of access to resources if you want to learn

Things get processed really slowly, employee retention is low, a lot of cracks between the lines you would notice when you work there long enough