Excellent journey. Probably the best time to be @ Waterfall. - Design Waterfall Employee Review

5.0
11 Nov 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are smart, hard working, hard playing and care about one another. This isn't an office where you just know your peers while within the 9-5 — there is a genuine appreciation for knowing people on a personal level and supporting their various interests outside of the company. Cross departmental participation is very high. Lots of good perks and very comfortable offices. Nothing original there, but nice to know they have it. Waterfall has been around a while, so the office is filled with knowledge and a great mixture of senior and junior people. They also do a great job of recognizing contributions and strengths, and is not unusual for a person to start in one position but move to another that showcases those strengths and career ambitions a bit more completely. There is a real sense that greatness lies just around the corner, and that is contagious (and hard to find sometimes). Isn't this why were here in the first place? Technology is ridiculously forward thinking, sometimes possibly too much for its own good? Hah.

Cons

You're expected to contribute above and beyond what my experience in other companies has been. This isn't a bad thing, in my opinion, because the boundaries between work and real life are purposefully obliterated — coming in to work doesn't feel like a chore.

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5.0
2 Apr 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great company to work for with lots of great folks.

Cons

As with many companies that are bought out by a larger firm, culture of the company changed.

5.0
14 Aug 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fun. Fun. And lots of hard, meaningful work. They give you goals, and you figure out ways to achieve them. The people here are so smart and so kind; I've had lunch with a different employee every week, and I've never been told a flat out no. And when I needed help on something, everyone was willing to help at least at some point in the future. It totally changed my career goals: Waterfall made me realize that the startup workplace is something I love and I wish to pursue it in the future. And it doesn't hurt that they are generous enough spend tons of money on culture, which makes coming to work exciting and fun.

Cons

This is a startup. They don't have everything figured out. For example, the person working on a project that I was involved with left. There was no concrete transition plan and it took a bit of effort to try and coordinate where the necessary resources were located. That being said, the process went by smoothly. Don't expect to come here and have only your work laid out for you. It's a startup, and that means that you are going to have to take care of things outside of your job description for the best interest of the company. Personally, I think dealing with that kind of challenge helped me grow immensely as a person and as an employee.

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