Fragile company with major issues... - Engineer NTENT Employee Review

1.0
18 Sept 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you work on the search side of the Carlsbad office, you'll probably have a good experience and learn a lot. If you work on the mobile/ad side of the Carlsbad office, your experience will be good if you work on the mobile development team. If working in the IT or Ad teams, your experience will be good as long as you possess the following traits: childish, inexperienced, egotistical, loud, disrespectful, backstabbing, dishonest, and highly critical of anyone who doesn't have the same in-your-face personality.

Cons

Management and the engineering elite on the mobile/ad side of the Carlsbad office are all buddies who are very secretive, and have no desire to communicate appropriately. Moreover, the workload is very lopsided, with the engineering elite (aka: friends of the management) freely coming in super late, leaving super early, and taking many days of off-books vacation, while pushing most of their workload onto the very few hard-working smart people who actually care about trying to make this flailing company successful. Also, the company doesn't generate revenue, and they've put all their eggs in one very brittle basket... The problems in the ad group are systemic, and they will eventually collapse the company if management continues the trend of entrusting that group.

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5.0
18 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

* Incredibly talented people * Leading edge technologies and ways of working * Heavy focus on advanced AI throughout the system that WORKS * Excellent balance of innovation and R&D that actually makes it into meaningful production systems! The company is solving large, challenging and fun problems that benefit end users. * Multi-million dollar 2021 investment in latest hardware in both development and production. * This is a company that is not afraid to shed legacy baggage and debt. 2020 was certainly a bit tougher in this regard, NTENT came out into 2021 very strong, well funded and was able to offload a massive amount of legacy debt, replacing it with modern AI systems and the right mindset. * Agile and results focused ways of working - people's work gets to production! Some of the technical debt that was let go was some teams who appeared to be operating a "social club" type environment without a focus on completing meaningful work into production or an over focus on academic research that didn't make it into production or didn't work as needed/expected. * Good benefits. 401K matching is great. Good health care, generous PTO and 13 paid holidays a year. Very nice life balance.

Cons

Teams are a little small currently, but this is really excitement in growing out world class talent to solve game changing problems. A great problem to have!

1
1.0
8 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart people and friendly colleagues

Cons

Lack of direction. Lack of transparency.

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