I have a lot of fun here! - Developer Beyond, Inc. Employee Review

4.0
18 Aug 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I'm a developer. I've worked for 3 companies in the past 3 years. Overstock is most certainly my favorite place so far. It's a fast paced environment with a lot of energy. I feel like the owner really does care about us as individuals. As a developer, there's ALWAYS something to do. There's always a project going on, and that's what interests me. The culture is a "laid back get your work done" culture. At least for my team anyway. That leads me to my next point. Your team is what determines your happiness here. That being said, my advice to those that read this would be: If you don't like your situation. Speak up. A little communication can go a long way. Benefits! Benefits are GREAT! I can't believe the people complaining about our benefits. If you don't think these are great, go take a look at a few other companies out there. You really don't know how good you have it here until you go somewhere else. Believe me, I've been with 3 different companies and these are the best. Could they be better? Of course. But they could definitely be worse. A lot worse. 6% 401k matching is unheard of. Thank you for the generous benefits even though people are still complaining about them.

Cons

Sometimes too fast paced. People will drop hits that "We're losing a bunch of money every day we don't have this feature." and that can put a lo of pressure on you as a developer. If you give a completion date, you'd better have that completed! So just be careful to pad plenty of time for your projects. Being a retail site... Overstock isn't a tech company. So using the latest and greatest is not going to be an option in a lot of cases.

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Pros

Fast paced environment with LOTS of hands-on experience with many different tools. The people are the reason to stay, lots of smart and caring people, managers, and leaders towards the bottom of the food chain.

Cons

Upper Management has completely destroyed this company and gutted it. In my several years at the company, communication is as poor as it could be. Bonuses are promised and then not followed up on. RIFs happen far too frequently. It is abundantly clear that this company does NOT care about it's employees, and at the moment is almost seems like they are trying as hard as they can to get people to quit so they don't have to pay severances before acquiring more companies and moving headquarters to Texas. The culture in the days of Overstock was incredible, it made people excited about being able to work there. Now people are hanging on by threads, large teams are now carried on the backs of just 1-2 people without additional pay as we see co-workers get laid off left and right. It is not sustainable. Important things are being missed because there are not enough people to do the work, which will end up biting the company in the butt for compliance and finance reasons.

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