8th Light Engineering Department Employee Reviews
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Terrific place to learn and grow. Lots of varied opportunities and a transparent leadership team
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Very receptive to feedback. generally understands the culture.
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Transparent and actually in the weeds doing the work, connecting with clients.
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The leadership is courageous enough to try new things. And then they make adjustment based on feedback from the team. Courage + listening is a powerful combination.
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They understand technology and value quality. Many of them went through the apprenticeship program, too, so there's a lot of humility too.
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They roll their sleeves up and deliver code along-side us every now and again to ensure they are making legit strategic decisions.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Open, true, employee-owned company. Fair compensation based on long-term planning.
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None. It's really low compared to the current market
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Well-defined mapping between compensation and performance.
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Vacation and *additional* conference speaking/attendance time.
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It reflects what I'm able to accomplish and what value I'm bringing to the company.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
I'm not sure there's a good way to improve the compensation, as it's normal for contractors to make less. Still a little disappointing.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Care about the work they do. Really emphasize quality.
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What a collection of interesting people, all passionate about creating excellent software.
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They are a supportive and (mostly) diverse group of people. It's been great to interact with so many people with different backgrounds.
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Openness to new ideas and willingness to dig in and get the job done even when it's hard.
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My team is really talented and motivated. They are supportive and are willing to drop everything and mentor me if the need arises.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
People care about each other's success. They truly care about doing quality work and helping others learn and improve.
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We greet each other when we arrive in the morning, and again when we leave in the evening. Great bunch of colleagues.
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Genuine caring for other people. Mentoring as a core value.
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The culture is the best part about the company. It is a learning centric culture.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
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What did you like most about the interview process?
It's always improving. We constantly tweak it to make it better, and we involve lots of people in the process.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Solving difficult problems and unlocking opportunities for my colleagues
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The problems are challenging and the team works together well.
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Solving problems for customers and mentoring other employees at 8th Light.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
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What do you like best about your company?
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
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