Not a great place to find meaning or growth - Senior Software Developer Emerald Employee Review

1.0
17 Mar 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Mostly remote work and somewhat flexible "unlimited" PTO if you're on a team who is able to benefit from that. This is probably an excellent place to work if you're a Vice President of something. Everyone else is treated horribly. If you are in the "underclass" this is a terrible place to work. Hierarchy is the only real cultural pillar here. The very few top sales people get to go to a resort. This gets talked about relentlessly at every meeting even if you're on a team that has nothing to do with sales.

Cons

Upper management is completely untrustworthy. You will be lied to constantly about future plans, business outlook, etc if you're deigned to be communicated with at all. There is a severe lack of any tangible mission here. The goal is to make money for shareholders who are dumb enough to invest in a company that isn't even entirely sure what it does. A "live events" company that is also a holding company that ALSO feels the need to micromanage all of their subsidiaries to death. If you want to wake up with a baseline feeling of existential dread every day, apply here. The few values that get espoused by the CEO either come directly from, or are in direct opposition to, whomever the current US president is at the time. Which is to say leadership doesn't actually hold any values outside of how to make money for shareholders and (perhaps even more accurately based on their performance in that regard) how to make money for the executive team.

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Emerald Response
10mo
Thanks for taking the time to give us your feedback. Sorry to hear that your experience of working for Emerald has been less than positive. We generally have strong retention in our software teams. We're committed to meeting the needs of our business and our clients by evolving our software platforms to meet our goals. It's quite common, in an agile environment, to have to adjust our tech stack from time to time which might feel like there is a change in approach but it's the nature of what we do. Under our CEO, Hervé Sedky's, leadership, a renewed executive team is driving the business forward with integrity, agility, and a deep commitment to both our people and our goals.

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