Fun environment - Advisor CloudRaker Employee Review

I started at Cloudraker around July 2023 and since I've never worked at an agency before I didn't know what to expect, however I can say that it was an awesome experience despite the no so happy ending. From the project manager who's is really on top of things and hardly let things go through the cracks by even doing QA, to the energy of the CEO probably because of the vibe of the team. Everyone is well set in it's place based on how good they do their job. The CTO who is a tinkerer that seems to be always working on some cool fun stuff.(when not on meetings of course) The guy that seems to have 6 hands and is taking care of fires everywhere, I bet he will be the one using the new Copilot workspaces first. The guy who seems to be working on a dark room but when he goes into a codebase you can tell he was there (how come I did not think of that!, or how did he do that?) they call him The architect. The remote guy and amazing full stack dev that probably types(as in adds types) his emails and crafts linting rules so strict that even MS copilot had a hard type compiling a project to success. The designer who craft beautiful functional interfaces that after you have built them you feel proud you work on that, despite your work not really being visible. The female front end lead that knows her craft extremely well and is also a great designer. The great front end dev that is into bees that probably writes tests before he leaves his house in the morning to make sure he is not missing the train. The product owner who is very technical and an amazing lead. The whole team makes CloudRaker a great place to work and level up your skills if that is what you are looking for.

-It's an agency so I'm guessing things change faster than on a regular business, It seems that it's hard for them to keep up with the changes and if one wants to work there has to be ready for anything -They only have bagels on bagels Wednesday, Where is the love for the croissants?

Decent vacation policy if you can find the time to use it. Some incredibly smart and resilient people to work with. Some interesting clients.

Compensation is below industry standard, titles are given somewhat freely without much consideration for what they actually mean or the responsibility they should carry. Nothing in the organization is clear, from policies to workflows to who to go to for help or advice, the entire company feels as if it's built upon the day-to-day whims of the partners who don't have a clear business offer strategy or even basic operations methodology. While the company professes flat hierarchies, it's clearly a "loudest voice wins" environment which created a large degree of politicking and has driven more than a few to become duplicitous and just plain awful to work with, complete with HR complaints that were never supported at more than a token level. The work is consistently undermined by people who have opinions on everything but no clear or demonstrable skill in said discipline. Unless you're under the wing of the partners, you will likely be made to feel like your ideas and skills are inadequate. The clients never seem truly happy or inspired unless by some miracle these people aren't involved in the process. Any personal/professional growth in the company is possibly only by playing to the egos of certain directors or the partners themselves or by happenstance when someone is laid off and they need to fill that role with a body to act in front of a client. Constant, reactive layoffs with promises to plan for a "new way of operating" but each time, nothing more than another town hall to tell everyone to look for work and work harder.