Used to be a good place - Software Engineer TrendMiner Employee Review

3.0
11 Jan 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It has had engineering culture with a good balance between responsibility and freedom. Motivated people eager to learn, who were constantly checking videos, taking courses, visited conferences (sponsored by company) and meet ups. Learned a lot using in production latest (at that point) technologies like Clojure, AngularJS, CouchDB. Challenging domain to work for (I find it interesting).

Cons

Constant micromanagement from executive guys as well as lack of technical knowledge. Lack of trust between tech and sale departments. Examples are - some technical decisions were made by business guys like using file system as database in one of core applications (which supposed to stay in prototype phase only), or over promising internally on sales plan and suddenly changing to smaller numbers 3 months after when goals were not reached. These created constant tensions between groups. Some things were just slow, like getting ssd for laptops took 12 months, etc.

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TrendMiner Response
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Hi, Thank you for the honest review. Unfortunately growing a small business tends to come with some growing pains. Last year D square doubled in size and added some senior technical staff members exactly to cover some of those pains you mentioned. Lets hope we keep learning from our experiences. Kind regards, Hans De Leenheer VP Marketing

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Pros

* Working with software that has amazing real-world applications. * Informed management. * Diverse and informed colleagues. * I am empowered to be creative, take charge, perform at my best. It’s not just a feeling. * Interaction with industry experts. I’ve had more exposure to the industry in the last year at TrendMiner than I did in my entire career. * Management cares about your cultural/religious values & background. * Open communication and access to management. * And much more!

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* None I can think of. It's a good feeling to be happy at work.

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