Great coworkers, not so great company - Anonymous employee ShipStation Employee Review

1.0
Dec 24, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There ARE not many. Learning proper grammar is one of them. ShipStation, really does have an open door policy. There is a front door, back door, and a side door. You get to choose the one you like when you are fired without warning. Management likes to hear your opinion as long as you agree with them. Getting promoted is easy, you just have to suck up to the CEO and take him to lunch a few times a week. Become his buddy and share dirty jokes. All in all I think this is a great place to work if McDonalds isn't hiring.

Cons

I have worked at a lot of places, big companies, small companies, but I have to give it to ShipStation. I have never worked anywhere that did not have an HR person. That's really awesome when you are harassed by your manager and have no one to turn to for assistance. With the purchase by Stamps.com, there is a sort of an HR department I guess. However, after reading the Glassdoor comments for Stamps, it does not look like that is a great option. If the CEO could count on his fingers and toes, he would have realized the bathroom and parking facilities were insufficient the day the lease was signed for the current space. Part of growing a company is leasing a space that has room for growth. A company that values it employees, is a company that trusts it's employees and shares what is happening behind the scenes. When the company is purchased for $50 million in cash and you share less than 1% with your employees, that says a lot about how much you really value us. How much of your stamps.com stock are you going to share with us?

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Pros

Every single person that works here is super nice and welcoming.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The work from home option is great, they do provide free snacks and drinks and a catered lunch once a week. Sometimes the workload can be really light. Most of the people working there were great

Cons

Owned by private equity, so the annual mass layoffs are very real, They will mass fire people and then outsource the jobs over seas. Expectation of taking ownership of projects without equitable pay for the responsibilities taken on. Sometimes the workload can be unbearable. I worked there when it was still a startup company, So I witnessed the company culture dive off of a cliff after the PE acquisition. Upper management is very fake and everything is about pushing more and more sales. The quality of the product has deteriorated, while more features have been added, there are more bugs and less people to fix them, all while the company continues to raise their prices. Managers tend to be promoted or moved from different sister companies, because they are "good managers" but then they know nothing about the platform they are managing, so they end up not being able to assist the employees they are managing

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