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Avantages

Challenging & interesting business Autonomy Some very smart colleagues

Inconvénients

Huge lack of resources (which is clearly a choice) Lack of support Painstaking internal processes & tools Unclear management/decisions

Avantages

Nice people huge project, the perfect environment if you want to grow not only as a developer you get your code reviewed career path support quality time with fitbit team

Inconvénients

having a huge project is also a downside sometimes

Avantages

Flexible hours Good brand in general

Inconvénients

Long shifts Rapport after work sometimes

Avantages

Good time off benefits, decent work/life balance unless you're on a really overworked team, people passionate about the products

Inconvénients

Management are toxic and have no interest in retaining talent, management have superior complex over employees and will flaunt it, refusal to understand the limitations of headcount at the management level, overcommitment to hundreds of initiatives they can't staff, managers give little to no direction to help employees grow skills, lowball staff in terms of base salary offers

Conseils à la direction

Invest in management training, invest in basic human decency training for management, learn to value the employees you have, and upper management needs to be aware of the company they have and stop daydreaming. Also, invest in a gym. This is a company built on exercise hobbyists and asking employees to participate in them without giving them a proper gym comes across as cheap.

Avantages

- Work for a company creating products with purpose and meaning. You'll be inspired by the weekly customer success stories shared internally submitted by customers. These unsolicited stories share how lives are changed for the better with the use of Fitbit devices. - Generous employee product discount - Fully stocked kitchens with a variety of snacks and beverages to choose from. Each Friday the Company hosts a... "happy hour" and caters in food - Participate in field tests on beta products

Inconvénients

- C-suite is uninspiring and lacks the charisma or stage presence required to lead an innovative organization. - Product misses and increased competition has led to poor earnings and unsure outlook as an independent company. - Everything. Moves. Slowly. There are too many meetings. In order to accomplish any task or project you'll need a treasure map to locate the correct resources. - Poor middle-management... capabilities. If you thrive in an environment where no clear instructions are provided, like to figure out on your own how to do something by spinning your wheels for an eternity and have a manager that is never around to provide guidance or even just to check in how you are during 1:1's that always get canceled, then Fitbit is for you. If not (like most), you might consider working elsewhere. - Communication? Help? Those are dirty words here. When you become frustrated after spending hours or (likely) days on a task because on one was available to help you and found out only after a simpler way existed and hear the term that it's the "Fitbit way," don't be alarmed. Unlike the "HP way" that typically connotes positive things, performing something this way means doing it without instruction, by yourself since no one around is willing to help for fear they teach you something that eliminates their job security, most inefficient method possible since you have to re-invent the wheel. - No gym. Meger 401(k) match capped at $2K. Workout Wednesdays are really not workout Wednesday's as the company boasts. These are supposed to be days that employees are asked to wear workout wear and take time out of your day at work to do some physical activity they love. What this day turns out to be is just another day with worn with comfortable clothing (since you can't leave the office anyways with competing deliverables all due at the same time...or are they since clear instructions weren't given?). The most annoying part of this day is you're unable to book conference rooms at all since you're supposed to eliminate all company meetings on these days. This never happens, and it's a mad dash trying to find an open room.

Conseils à la direction

Wake, UP. You know from the engagement surveys things need to change, The only positive thing worth mentioning is almost every single employee is proud to work there, despite miserable ratings in all other areas. Retain your talent through whatever means you know right. Start a mentoring program to allow a path for the growth of your junior staff. Have mandatory management training for your managers, and... require them to actually manage their staff if they're people managers. Take out the red tape and ask why it takes such a long time to get anything done. Are the bottlenecks from disgruntled tenured emplees? If so, remove them and hire people that are excited and motivated with a fresh set of eyes and clear mind. There's such potential and it makes many want to scream when they see how management either doesn't care or is clueless how their employees are treated and felt.

Avantages

very good location of the office modern office good payment compared to other big companies in Bucharest, for same person

Inconvénients

management kind of sucks, but I saw worse; there are people that are considered seniors or above and are actually just juniors in terms of actual knowledge, with high demands and quite some temper

Conseils à la direction

should clean up and enforce some standards for seniors already hired

Avantages

Great place to work with a nice location. Lot's of things to learn and a bright career future.

Inconvénients

I haven't found any until now.

Avantages

Good product line, and good ideas. There are some good people there

Inconvénients

Continually making bad decisions regarding product lines, then canceling programs. a revolving door decent engineers leaving regularly. The experience level in design and manufacturing is junior level at best. Run faraway. Senior leadership is lacking,

Conseils à la direction

Fire the four leaders under James and start over or sell the company.