Storage company held down by poor business management and a hostile environment - Anonymous employee StorONE Employee Review

StorONE does have some good-hearted people working in the company. However, in the past year, many new hires have been brought on board in positions of power or promoted from within that had the agenda of what I call a silent takeover. After these particular people were hired, the internal culture became one of exclusion versus inclusion. If you were not in their cliche, you were an obstacle and needed to be removed. How these people went about it was backhanded and bordered on hostility. Slowly, this cliche started replacing every person in the company with someone loyal to them. It was a sad thing to see, and hopefully will be remedied at some point in the future. This was not the only issue. Many other reviews are saying it was a young company, and as such, you need to forgive the lack of process. This is not entirely true. StorONE has been in business for over eight years but spent most of that time in stealth. During this time is when those processes and procedures, especially for the development cycle of the product, should have been developed, but they were not. I would go as far as to say that not a single best practice, process, development cycle, proper QA testing, or any component of a "properly" ran development team was developed or put in place. Development was the sole decision of a single person who truly did not understand how software development was run. Because of this, the software was laden with new bugs and regressive bugs with every release, and the company, because of severely missed customer targets or far-reaching promises, had to install, at its best late alpha code onto customer production systems. This, as you can imagine, would cause many issues with any sales or support efforts.