Great on paper... - Anonymous employee Sentrana Employee Review

1.0
11 Jun 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Above industry standard salaries - Flexible work hours - Unlimited PTO - Nice office in Farragut Square with good facilities - Decent benefits - Everyone is very nice and generally friendly to work with - Catered lunch on Friday's - Testing out and implementing new technologies is encouraged

Cons

- No clear direction or focus at the company - No real business model - Essentially a failed to launch startup that is now struggling to pivot but can't figure out what to pivot to - The CEO, while well-meaning, tends to make unilateral decisions that affect the company's direction without first doing real market research and testing - It's clear that upper management has to spend a good amount of their time planning around the CEO and managing him - High turnover in the last 6-12 months - The engineering/technical teams in particular have had high turnover, and management of them is now being done by the CEO

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5.0
7 Jun 2021
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Pros

1. you get to work on some of the toughest business & technical problems 2. great opportunity to keep learning irrespective of the stage of your career 3. smaller company right now so a very tight knit team 4. Leadership has persevered through tough times, future looks bright

Cons

its a start up env so not for everyone

4.0
21 Jul 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The team at Sentrana is extremely strong. If you work there, you will be surrounded by talented, dedicated individuals who are focused on creating success for Sentrana and its customers. All parts of the organization have tremendously talented team members. The company absolutely takes care of its people. There is a focus on creating a great work environment, opportunities for professional growth. Particularly for folks early in their careers, Sentrana offers great exposure and "step up" opportunities. Sentrana is at its best when it is focused on solving real world problems using advanced analytics. It is hard to find an organization that is better at the nuts and bolts of delivering solutions in this space, covering the business thinking needed to define the problem, the quantitative approaches that can solve the problem, and the technology that can deliver the analytics to the people that need them.

Cons

From a day to day perspective, the company can be a bit meeting heavy, but overall the work environment is great, colleagues are helpful, and the infrastructure is top notch. The company has been challenged to meet its potential (which is substantial) by an occasional lack of a focused business strategy. The innovative spirit that contributes to making Sentrana a great place to work can also lead the company to try too many things at once. This absence of focus has translated into slow growth. Continued investments in the sales infrastructure and refocusing on the companies core mission should help with this over time.

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