Q&A With Viscira Employees

Not very flexible. Lots of mandatory meetings, and too many deadlines prevent flexibility.

Your schedule is totally dependent on your deadlines, and there are lots of them!

Casual. Pretty much whatever you want within reason.

No pets.

Do you thrive in a very fast paced environment, working on several projects at once with conflicting priorities?

You will be given more work than is reasonable so you will need to work 50-60 hours per week. They say they are open to change but then when you try to suggest any changes no one wants to try anything different.

If you can survive more than a couple years and do your job well you'll probably get promoted.

Week off between Christmas and Jan 1.

Business casual is fine.

Horrible feedback process based on anonymous feedback where your coworkers say mean-spiirited things as if they were on social media.

Most people are friendly. However, there are a few spoilers/ rotten apples who spoil the whole barrel and nobody does anything about it. The culture is work, work, work with an occasional potluck or team outing.

If you do project work, there is no work life balance.

Very difficult. Viscira becomes your whole life.

Busy, frantic, running from one meeting to the next.

Bullies and others who play well at office politics.

1. Stop overloading workers with too much work. It leads to burnout and high turnover. It also leads to mistakes or blaming others when something goes wrong. (See #2). 2. Remove culture of tattling/blaming anonymously to your coworkers' manager. Be adults and talk directly with each other to debate and resolve issues. Managers, grow up and redirect this behavior back to the parties involved.

Diversity is a plus. Wide range of ethnicity, male/ female, and age variety.

Not secure at all. People just vanish unexpectedly.

Supposedly unlimited, but in reality there is no time to take time off.

Extremely fast and unreasonable. People have to work nights and weekends too in order to meet unrealistic deadlines.