A race to the bottom - Software Developer OPEXUS Employee Review

1.0
5 May 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Admirable company mission. - Coworkers do what they can to assist whenever possible.

Cons

- The company feels like it's in a constant state of disarray. My peers in the support and engineering departments often shared the feeling that they were struggling to keep their heads above water. Product management, by direction of C-suites, consistently choose flashy "sell-able" features over application stability. The deadlines set by management are often missed due to poor planning and resource allocation, leading to an implicit expectation that developers and QA work overtime. This crunch leads to buggy releases that then cause a deluge of customer complaints. Speaking to customers about these issues was almost always a tiring and embarrassing affair. They are reactive, not proactive. - As mentioned in many of the other reviews here, the company-wide Town Halls have a bizarre "pep-rally" degree of enthusiasm from the CEO and other C-Suites that speak throughout. They love to tout beating their revenue and sales targets, even after just giving paltry pay raises that make no account for employee overtime/performance. It is EXTREMELY insulting. - Engineering positions are being outsourced to international contracting firms. We can probably thank the private equity buyout for that. - Leadership insist that employees must be in the office 2+ days per week. If it were as important as they would like us to believe, they wouldn't be hiring contractors based outside the United States. They also want you to believe that their open floor-plan office is a gift. As if the availability of peanuts in the kitchen and company events (that you likely won't attend anyway because you actually have work to do), somehow make it worth contending with DC traffic and losing hours each week to commuting (in addition to the overtime). I truly hope OPEXUS changes its ways. Its customers and employees deserve better.

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5.0
14 Aug 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

* Coworkers are all very kind and interesting, bringing different perspectives to the table * Unlimited PTO * While it varies depending on your manager, I've felt supported in my professional growth and like my supervisor genuinely cares about my development. Tuition assistance is available, senior employees will answer your questions, and leadership is easy to reach for career chats and advice. * The office is easily accessible (right by two metro stations and several bus stops, with a lot of parking lots nearby) and is a nice space. Very convenient for DC residents. While this isn't everyone's experience, I like coming in; I get more work done, I feel like I know more people outside of my team, and I learn a lot more about the company * This is both a Pro and a Con depending on how you look at it, but you will be working hard. It's a growing company and you may have to take on more challenges than your peers in other companies, but you will gain more experience, take on more new projects, and develop more new skills than they may have the opportunity to do. * Events are put on (small and large) to encourage community-building and to make people look forward to coming into the office/interacting with their coworkers.

Cons

* Again, it's hard work. If you don't take care of yourself or enforce your boundaries you can get burnt out. Depending on where you're at in life, this may be a deal-breaker for you. * Higher turnover than what you would want to see. It seems like the main cause of people leaving is finding a fully remote job or one closer to where they live if they're not in DC. But it does create a weird vibe

4.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people to work with there

Cons

Very small increases for high performers

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