Quick Up and Slow and Steady Crash Down - Senior Developer Hertz Employee Review

3.0
29 Feb 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company is trying to keep up or rather catch up with new technologies(current) such as and there are opportunities to learn new things. Once in a while there are some very exciting efforts. Depending on the type of personality you have and who you work for you may advance fast or have a lot of fun. Hours are nice and flexible. Not sure if it is a "PRO" but you can stay mediocre and average and be "successful" in the company. There are some awesome people who work here, some good leaders, thinkers and innovators. Great work environment and work life balance. Gym on site. You can succeed. Good place for resume. Good career starter. Place where you can stay for a long time if you can take it.

Cons

Red tape and lots of it. Things can be quite opaque and this can be difficult for someone who thinks of their future and wants to plan their career. People try to hold on to "what is theirs" and there is a culture that promotes "tradition" and "seniority" even when it is inappropriate and only holds the company back. Plenty of legacy stuff that will not go away even though it is a waste of resources. Trying to adopt or promote modern approaches and methods you will step on someones toes and make someone unhappy. May not always be the best place for creative, motivated, independent thinkers who want to always advance and move forward. Mediocrity is abound and if you do not keep yourself current you may find it tough in outside world when you leave. If you are brilliant or over achiever you may stick out like a sore thumb with all that you would expect from that. Plenty of group think and people going with the flow to avoid confrontation. People are rather keep quiet and avoid conflict rather then help the company be better by saying what needs to be done. Internal communication is inefficient, abundant use of outdated methodology, approaches, ideas and technology. Trickle down approach means that what you doing might be meaningless in the great scheme of things and when it goes into production. Depending on who you work for your career might be influenced by opinions of a single person regardless of your merit, skills or aptitude. There are many brilliant people who could be taking the company to the next level and into the future who get no recognition and their efforts are ignored or even suppressed. You maybe irrelevant. Inefficiency. Inefficiency. Inefficiency. They working on it but when it takes you many months to understand how things work you know you have the problem. You may have to do thinks that make no sense as part of the job, everybody knows it but nobody cares. High turnover rate and company ignores true reasons for it or does not care to examine them. This costs company tremendous amount of money and their best talent .

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5.0
13 Apr 2026
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Pros

Great place to work in tandem with other professionals in your trade, always had a feeling of "family" working alongside my peers. We come together when times are tough, this is very rewarding,

Cons

The current economic and geopolitical spectrum have been proving a challenge to this industry as a whole, thankfully we are a resilient outfit with the best people at the helm.

2.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It is possible to make a difference if you are determined enough. Many engineers work hard and most try.

Cons

The company has a ton of tech debt that it recognized, but is not being addressed. Management controls the time, scope and so quality is falling. The people they have hired lack fundamentals understanding of software development practices. The company often will make decisions to save small amounts of money with their facilities and tools they give to employees without understanding the opportunity cost that was lost. Overtime is required. You can't work here if you want to have a family or keep your family from hating you. Title inflation is real. Many people are actually performing one level down from their stated title and those that are not are only not failing due to putting in crazy hours. Middle management wont stickup for their people to ensure they are not burning out. They see it happening multiple times in front of them and they do nothing.

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