Avantages
Q2 provides free coffee, tea, and other various drinks. They provide free fruit weekly and if you are lucky you might even be able to get food left over from big corporate meetings. Q2 gives out free shirts and other freebies that may keep you entertained. People are generally nice you might find some conversation within the walls. Sometimes you may get the opportunity to work from home via VPN, but do not count on this as Q2 just opened up a brand new building for hoarding its workers. Working from home is possible but highly discouraged.
Inconvénients
Unlike the 4 or 5 star reviewers who can barely put together more than 3 reasons Q2 is a "great" company - I will go in depth into why you should avoid this company at all costs. Q2 really wants you to like the company; so much so that the first day on the job HR begins the indoctrination process of bragging about how amazing their corporate culture is and how EVERYONE loves to work at Q2. Q2 loves to gush about how they are "One of the best places to work" in Austin, but moral is at an all time low and all the best talent are leaving for better opportunities. Browse the Q2 Careers page and you will see an almost unbelievable amount of jobs listed - kind of strange for a company that prides itself on being such a great place to work. If you get a job at Q2 I suggest you work at being as mediocre as possible; let me explain - if you show any kind of talent or work hard, the resident 'slackers' and 'parasites' will take notice and rely on you to do everything. Do not work hard or you will need to work even harder to support the bottom of the barrel talent that surrounds you. You will be depended on and your 'co-workers' will cruise on your hard work. You will 100% not be rewarded for your hard-work, in fact, your immediate manager will probably despise you for 'Rocking the boat' and making them look bad by working harder then they do. Ah yes, speaking of management; you will probably be directly managed by a 'no talent suck-up sycophant' who is better at brown nosing than actually knowing how to do their job... or yours. Great managers know the three positions below them and two positions above, in and out - however, your manager will probably not know anything and will rely on you to know more than they do. These 'managers' only got their job for 'knowing' the right people and being a 'yes-man/woman'. You will probably hate your manager because they are so incompetent and lazy; but they will never be fired so don't even entertain that notion. The company as a whole is dysfunctional and it is an 'amazing' day if something is not broken - be it the service that Q2 provides or the internal corporate systems. Q2 likes to call itself an enterprise company with a start-up feel - this is just an excuse for the 1997 way of running a company as there is a definite lack of innovation or "getting with the times". If employed you will encounter people who absolutely love their job at Q2, be wary of these people as they are the 'parasites' I spoke of earlier. You will see these people constantly roaming the halls or lazy'ing about the companies 'Family Room' looking for leftover food scraps to stuff their faces with - all the while you will probably be working hard to meet a deadline and browsing LinkedIn and Indeed looking for a new position. You will hate the culture of Q2 because you will realize it is a culture of laziness instead of hard-work, same ol' same ol' instead of innovation, and 'we made it one more day' when it should be 'The future is now'. Beware of this company; those with talent have left or are in the process of leaving and the 'welfare' workers are hungry for more hardworking talent to come in and exploit. You will hate your life and you will hate this company.
