rating for Softscape
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happilyemployed
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November 19, 2008
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Re: Employment at Softscape posted on November 20, 2008 06:56 AM
My experiences there are very different from what you describe. But to answer your question "I don't know where all of the bad comments are coming from"...
Ex-employees who want to express what it was like to work at Softscape (thank you first amendment) -
Re: Employment at Softscape posted by thehacker on November 21, 2008 03:45 PM
Oh man. Can you imagine what led up to this post? Some poor mid-level schlub gets approached by his boss: "I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on... Saturday. There's some astroturfing that needs done."(I realize this was posted on a Wednesday, but that's how it would have gone down when I worked there.) -
Re: Employment at Softscape posted by thehacker on November 21, 2008 03:50 PM
PS: When I was there, I missed the Summer outing, but I did go to a Spring one. They took us to some country club, there was some mediocre food, etc, etc. There was a bullshit powerpoint slide show, and then we were all supposed to cheer and clap for some salesdroid who had landed the Biggest Sale Ever.The "party" stopped when we got back to the office. Predictably, in order to make the sale, the salesdroid had promised an impossibly quick delivery date without consulting anyone who would actually build the webapp he'd just sold. We all had to work weekends for the foreseeable future, the boss said.A couple of weeks after that I got fired for having my resume online. A week after that, I had a new, much better job. -
. posted by happilyemployed on November 21, 2008 07:16 PM
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Re: Employment at Softscape posted on November 22, 2008 01:36 PM
Hahahaha.. I too got spoken to for having my resume online. I didn't fired over it but I heard others did.
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