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CloudLock

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Far from the best experience you can have. - Anonymous employee CloudLock Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are all really nice and smart. The office space is cool, the little perks (1/2 day Fridays in the Summer, free lunch Fridays) are appreciated.

Cons

LONG hours for pitiful money. You will be looked at if you try to leave at a normal time. As other reviews have said 60 - 70 hours is the norm. Be prepared to hear "leaving early?" a lot. So if you have no life it's really a great place to be. Also a great place if you really don't need much money. Hopefully you don't have a family. The strain it's putting on my family is one of the primary reasons I'm actively seeking employment elsewhere at the moment. The actual product is very janky. Things are always broken and there is always something on fire because the software development process is terrible. There is not a focus on doing things right, just a focus on getting releases out the door at any cost. They reward you with Kool-Aid, which everyone seems to have drank. Don't expect to grow your career at all here. There is NO mentorship or guidance of any sort. There is no plan in place for improving your skills or getting you to where you want to go. You will be nothing more than a code-monkey.

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5.0
Aug 3, 2021
Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Dec 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cloudlock is a very friendly place: people take the time to get to know you as a person, not just a "human resource". The company is like a family, and playing video games together or walking along the river kindles a very tight-knit culture.

Cons

There is an implicit pressure to work long hours: 60 and 70 hour weeks are the norm. Nobody wants to appear "lazy" by leaving the office at 5 PM, or by not responding to work emails while at home. The company culture rewards those who work harder, rather than those who work smarter. In addition, the software that runs Cloudlock is held together with band-aids and prayers. The management doesn't want to invest in quality software engineering practices, preferring to ship features as fast as possible. There's never time to write documentation or automated tests, and as a result, software stability goes out the window. The process of testing changes is a slow and painful one, which sucks the joy out of writing software. Oh, and training and mentoring? Hah. There's no time for that right now, we have to fix this critical problem on production!

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CloudLock Response
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Sorry to hear your experience was not a positive one at CloudLock. While we appreciate your acknowledging our company culture in a positive light, clearly you had some concerns regarding our engineering processes and expressed concerns over work/life balance issues. We are always striving to learn from current and former employee feedback, so we truly appreciate you taking the time to write a review. We are a fast growing start-up in a fast growing market, and do have a lot of people wearing a lot of different hats working on things that perhaps similar roles in larger companies do not. This does result in some long hours sometimes, but while we do work hard we have been hyper-conscious of work/life balance and continue to make great strides in balancing the two. Hyper-growth start ups are not for everyone - and while yes, we do have a lot of the fun "perks" we are also working really hard and passionately towards something great. Part of the learning process in this kind of environment is continuing to learn from feedback, mistakes and successes. Our engineering team has continued to make incredible leaps and bounds over the past two years, as evidence by both the incredible products they produce, the explosive customer adoption, and the team themselves. Thanks again for your feedback - as our journey continues your feedback and from other past and current CloudLock team members will be key in helping to drive our future. Gil
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