HighGear Reviews

I've worked at HighGear full time for over 7 years, and I love my job! I've worked at a lot of different companies as a software engineer, and this one is the best. If I were to try to distill it down to a few reasons I love working here, the first would be the genuine relationships I have with my coworkers and management. There's no pressure to hang out outside of work, but we definitely do so and I enjoy that we all can have fun together and that we genuinely care about each other personally. It makes working together during business hours so much more effective and fun! I also deeply appreciate the high standards that we continuously strive for. Sometimes I think I've done everything I could do to make a customer successful and then my supervisor will walk over and suggest additional steps to help the customer, which sometimes include investigating and fixing problems with customer servers that are outside the scope of our product. I've grown far more at this job than at any other because of the high standards of service that permeate how we do business and serve our clients. It's a really good feeling to have happy clients and to know that I've made a large impact in making them successful. In addition, HighGear is a very exciting product to work on. As a software engineer, I love that I get to solve challenging problems "under the hood" but even more importantly, solving these challenging problems is making our customers more and more successful with every release. Connecting the intrinsic enjoyment of engineering with the extrinsic payoff of successful, happy customers is the best kind of reward.

There is a definite "people first" attitude. Benefits and pay are good. Work hours are very flexible. Despite their employment adverts, they a willing to train employees onsite (at least moreso than most other companies). Frederick is a very small city with a lot of cultural diversity. My experience was good overall, but I felt incompatible with the company's culture.