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Dynamic Owl

Acquired by ESW Capital

Is this your company?

Things were great until late July 2018 - Anonymous employee Dynamic Owl Employee Review

1.0
7 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It was once a great place to work, with co-workers I considered friends, and founders that I trusted.

Cons

The company was recently acquired by ESW Capital for their Skyvera portfolio. ESW is a rather secretive, privately-held equity firm based in Texas, and information about them is hard to come by online. They buy up software companies, move a lot of the technical expertise to offshore workers, and raise the price of the software license for existing customers while also trying to upsell them on their other products. If ESW's acquisition of Jive is any indication, ESW will crush Bonzai's culture and slowly erode the customer base. During this acquisition, longtime employees who had years of technical expertise were let go, with a "generous" severance package equal to the minimum required by BC labour law. Post-acquisition, there will be serious technical debt that the new offshore workers will need to overcome quickly if they want to maintain the same level of service to our clients. I don't see this happening.

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1.0
4 Dec 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

some of the people are nice

Cons

in 2016 they had almost 20 employees and in 2017 they lost at least 9 of those employees. they overwork their employees and get angry when they won't work or answer emails afterhours. there is no flexibility for working arrangements. policies change on a whim. there is no QA team or person in this application company. they have immoral practices when it comes to clients and partners. the other posts on this were made by employees who were asked to post.

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5.0
28 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1 - The co-founders are smart, positive, outgoing and great leaders that make great decisions, they listen to you, and layout the expectations very plainly. It’s a company that cares about it’s people, product and customers, and a company with a culture, vision and values 2 - The Development team is very strong and collaborative, the most organized code base and team I’ve seen, the team is very well managed and given ample opportunities to learn and grow 3 - The co-workers are very welcoming and have a sense of humour, they know how to put their heads down and work, yet also have a little fun too 4 - The culture is about getting stuff done, learning and having fun, if this is your culture you will fit right in 5 - They do lunch and learns, conferences, books, etc. They walk the talk. All in all a great place to work.

Cons

- nothing I can think of

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