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Smart Employees, great talent, good company vision but they can’t get there with any meaning with the way they treat employees, who inevitably leave quickly, in a steady stream. They should just install a turnstile at the front door.
Positives are few but  you do learn quickly and grow ( but at the expense of your sanity)
Basically, a remarkably demoralizing place run by the most toxic, self-serving director-managers I have ever encountered.  Some critique work so deeply, harshly and unrealistically, while their own presentation skills are  a cacophony of every second word being the syllable “uh, and then ,uh, you have to uh”...
Get over yourselves, stop bullying, stop gossiping, stop threatening.
You have somewhat good products, hard workers, you just are not smart enough to realize it or deserve it.

Think Research is a very interesting place. On one hand, you will get exposure to lots of interesting, complex problems and there’s a lot of really smart people working to make healthcare better. On the other, management (i.e C-level) seems to lack a moral compass and will ultimately make decisions based on their own pride and appearances instead of what’s best for the company. This results in what appears to be a really fun culture but ends up being quite awful. I don’t think I fully grasped how messed up it was until I left and worked for a normal company again.

New CFO and COO, confused management, extremely high turnover and ruthless culture. They could care less about your well being and mental health. The benefits are a joke - $2500 maximum. If you aren't pretending and playing politics, you will be singled out. They have fired or lost many senior level management and employees and claim to grow via "synergy". HR will NOT support you and will lay you off tomorrow without notice or any heads up. They also claim to follow a "start-up" culture in the name of ruthless workload and zero concern for your work-life balance. You might work on some good projects, but the negative culture and ruthlessness will sour the experience. Lack of direction and information is an everyday affair! 

The Good

Your coworkers are fantastic, ambitious people whose goal is to be productive and do cool things. TDD is encouraged.

The Bad

Stories and assignments were frequently half-conceived features where edge cases and simple things were often not caught during the design phase. Great area to improve here. So frequently busy that regular and official performance reviews may not be performed

My Possible Bias

I was present at Think Research for about 8 months and was dismissed for what I believe were inadequate and inaccurate reasons.

I was at Think for a little over a year, the management team is terrible to anyone who doesn't drink the kool aid. Fun environment with great staff (although alot of them are catty and cliquey) and a cool space to work in. Depending on what team you're on, no one knows what they're really doing. Constant turnover of employees in the company, which makes it hard to stay motivated if your team keeps changing. Little reward/recognition for the mountain of work you do, unless you're favored by management. And if you're not, your manager will take credit for you work.

Although the culture is good and the pay is ok, it just isn't worth it. You're expected to do way too much with very little support, and everyone seems to think "that's just the way it is". I've worked for a lot of companies and I guarantee, that's not the way it is. Management is terrible - managers seem out of touch with what employees are actually doing, and are completely unrealistic with asks - They don't listen, they don't help, and there is absolutely no loyalty here. You will be thrown under the bus and there isn't anyone to stand up for you.

They use your ideas, work you hard, take credit, once they can find cheaper staff to pay, they let you go to cut cost to keep the books nice for investors, and tell you “you’re not a good fit”. High turn-over for all depts. C-suite are all buddies so they’ll never have to be accountable to anyone! It’s just smoke and mirrors for the investors.

Great people, culture and fair work life balance. Chance to improve and advance. Good location with shuttle provided for help with the commute. Always providing healthy and fun snacks and great creature comforts. Open environment and great hardworking, caring folks.

The ambience of the company is really good.Great place to work at and great chances of growth.In complete requirements makes the job complicated and chances of error rises.

I should have listened to all of the negative reviews before joining. Management is clueless and there is lots of misinformation. All of the departments are pitted against each other vs working together and people will throw you under the bus for the smallest reason. Glad I am out of there. 

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