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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Feb 19th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Quality Assurance Engineer
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Many Hats
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Exciting and fast paced work environment
Opportunity for advancement
Cross disciplinary teams
Great place to learn new skills and move between teams
Company full of smart people
CEO is a pleasure to learn from
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Verbal promises may not be kept
Takes time to move up
Long hours do not necessarily correlate to advancement
Chaotic expectations
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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3.0
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2.0
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4.0
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3.0
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2.0
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4.0
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1166621
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Open
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Feb 11th, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Software Development Engineer
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Recommanded
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cool snacks, parking and sometimes free lunch. people there are cool.
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too many hard works and deadlines.
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0.0
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5.0
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3.0
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4.0
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5.0
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5.0
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3.0
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1166621
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Open
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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1.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Dec 9th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Account Manager
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Lack of HR
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Pros are the snacks, people, and location.
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Workload is exhausting and you never know what the day will be like.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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1.0
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APPROVE
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2.0
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3.0
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2.0
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3.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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1166621
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Open
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Hire more people
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Jan 10th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Not very professional
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Cool office, free snacks, co-workers are typically brainy without being haughty.
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When something goes wrong, there's a lot of scapegoating. Someone ends up under the bus, even in front of the client.
People show up at 11am and work until 8-9pm. This isn't easy for people with children. There's pressure to be responsive to internal company communications at all hours of the day and night, though this is never spelled out as a job requirement.
There's very little management; your boss is an absentee. As a result, there's a lot of turnover. Another result is that things which would be considered "101" at other companies are handled poorly at YinzCam. For example, many clients don't pay for services due to YinzCam's inability to get invoices out the door.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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16.0
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2.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1166621
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Open
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Dec 20th, 2018 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Software Engineer
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Poor management leaks into toxic environment
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- Decent pay compensation / benefits
- Exposure working on a variety of high profile apps
- Chips and candy-bars (pro or con if you are trying to be healthy)
- Good if you aren't a great developer but are willing to spend large amounts of time at the office appearing to help
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- Software process amounts to daily sprints, constantly fighting the biggest fire that was mismanaged
- Leadership relies on manipulation and blame
- Firefighting is rewarded, not quality development/additions to companies toolset/codebase
- Leadership refuses to do ANYTHING to address employee complaints, just met with awkward silence
- Input is only valued if you agree, if you disagree they will just ask someone else who is afraid to do so
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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10.0
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2.0
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1.0
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2.0
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2.0
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3.0
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1.0
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1166621
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Open
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Hire appropriate people with experience in this field of project management. Start to manage teams/projects better and not make every single thing a fire. That would go a long way to cleaning up the horrid working environment.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Dec 18th, 2018 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Software Developer
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Social values
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Social values.
At Christmastime, my company purchases and gifts toys to deserving children. Each staff gives 2-4 suggestions for toys which we believe will be enjoyed by children of different ages. Every body in the company cares about this special activity, we all participate and give toy suggestions. Then, the company has purchased our suggested toys and presented them to children going through cancer treatments.
It is quite an honor to be part of this company with these social values.
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There is a need for improving documentation of products.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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1.0
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5.0
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3.0
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5.0
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4.0
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4.0
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5.0
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1166621
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Open
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It is my suggestion the company maybe should donate warm winter gear. May be of more use than toys.
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0.0
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Nov 25th, 2018 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Software Developer
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Memorable job perks!!
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Super motivated by watching the company management send off employees onto a free sports-cation trip to Spain to visit many well-known stadia and watch real-time footbal matches, as a reward since they worked pretty hard to create some famous Spanish footbal mobile apps.
BEST and once in a lifetime memorable job perk experience for the entire hard-working product team! This kind of special perks are why I was wanting to get a job to work for a sports company such as Yinzcam.
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Very fast pace of daily work-load
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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1166621
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Open
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Keep rewarding your employees with this kind of memorable perks
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Nov 9th, 2018 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…
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Paid parking
Free snacks and drinks (if/when available)
Great health coverage
Decent amount of PTO (which is sometimes restricted months at a time)
Flexible core office hours (with the expectation that you are reachable/readily available to work 24/7)
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Severely understaffed
Unofficial company motto: Just grab the lowest-hanging fruit
Immoral CEO with an inflated sense of self-importance who is incapable of giving/receiving constructive criticism, consistently and openly lies to employees and clients, and hypocritically claims to care about her employees and their happiness while blatantly doing nothing to address the serious growing concerns she has been hearing from employees and actively contributing to/supporting a perilously harrowing and degrading work environment
Organizational structure with no room to grow and no levels of middle management between staff and “executives”
Environment in which paranoia, emotional terrorism, and constant manipulation run rampant and unchecked
Overambitious and unrealistic deadlines and expectations
Laughable project management/ownership (or lack thereof)
Embarrassing recruitment/hiring process
Rapid turnover across all teams
Zero respect for personal time and no concept of boundaries (professional or otherwise)
Company morale at an all-time low and continues to drop; management’s solution is to provide unhealthy complementary snacks and lunches every once in a while
Incredibly toxic company culture built upon a volatile mixture of unfounded hubris, constant back-channelling (internally and externally), and dangerously power-hungry management
Archaic company policies that have not changed to accommodate “growing” size of the company
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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20.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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0.0
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1.0
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1166621
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Open
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Stop lying. Stop toying with peoples’ lives. Stop leveraging peoples’ weaknesses and emotions as a way to get what you want. This isn’t a game.
Wake up and smell the Founder’s Syndrome before you’ve passed the point of no return and run the company completely into the ground. Start meaning what you say and saying what you mean.
Be more proactive. Start actively listening to, reflecting upon, and *doing something meaningful* about the criticism your employees are giving you and have been giving you for years. You will continue to lose good, well-meaning people because of your inane desire to maintain control at all times.
Stop expecting undying loyalty and start earning it. Each new hire is a human being, not a lottery ticket you’re hoping will turn into your next loyal serf.
Be humble. No one likes virtue-signaling. People especially do not like working for someone who does it profusely either.
Stop setting projects, employees, and the company up for failure and then swooping in at the eleventh hour, “rallying the troops,” and showboating the company’s “triumph” as anything but what it really is: self-flagellation in the name of martyrdom.
Most importantly though, please stop manipulating your more vulnerable/malleable/obsequious employees into doing your dirty work. Writing your own Glassdoor review is in poor taste, and pitting employees and entire teams against one another is petty and childish.
Here’s the ugly truth: There’s a lot of potential in what this company does (and could do), and there are a lot of talented, hard-working employees who have a vision of a better YinzCam…but you’ve squandered it all. Your pride and refusal to do what is right for the company (often opting, instead, to do what is right for yourself) have been afflicting those around you whether you’re aware of it or not. Your employees are smarter than you think; the way you’ve been running this company has soured your reputation and destroyed your relationships with the people with which you are intimately connected. Your feeble attempts at retaining employees and enticing others to join a company choked by pettiness and lassitude will continue to fail if you don’t make a drastic change soon. By continuing on this path of gross negligence and willful ignorance, you will only succeed in one thing: self-destruction.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Nov 7th, 2018 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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UX/UI Designer
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Flexible work time
Great benefits (e.g. medical insurance)
Competitive compensation
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Challenging time management - too much clients at the same time
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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7.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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1166621
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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0.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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private:yinzcam
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1166621
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Oct 3rd, 2018 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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YinzCam
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Tough place to work
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Interesting clients and industry, exposure to new technologies, great colleagues
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Direction often seemed unclear, felt little respect for work-life balance
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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15.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1166621
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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May 12th, 2021 10:13PM
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YinzCam
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Technology
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Software & Computer Services
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