Bewertungen für iZotope

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Needs more direction on products and customer types. Inexperienced at marketing and selling hardware.

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It's a smaller company so career paths are not as defined or navigable as you'll find at larger companies, but that's to be expected.

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* Company has gotten a lot more risk averse on the software products side since taking VC funding. Expect to be releasing another edition of RX, Ozone, and Neutron every single year if you aren't involved on the Spire product line.

* Pay is below industry average across the board - which is really rough if you're trying to live close to work or support a family. It's pretty common for people to leave after having their first kid. Almost all experienced hires from non-audio/music companies will find they have to take a pay cut.

* There's a lot of catch up going on from being a 10+ year old company relying on internal systems that were built in-house for departments outside of engineering. Expect to do a lot of clean up or migration work from things that were neglected or outgrown. The quest for ambitious growth, intense product release schedule and the need to rebuild things feel at odds with each other.

* Like many other companies in audio tech there's a pretty major lack of diversity and it skews heavily white male - more so in engineering & product vs other departments. There are no women or PoC above Director level there. Entire C-suite is white male. You can be the judge in deciding if there's some unconscious bias going on in hiring and management practices that perpetuates the lack of diversity in upper management.

* You will probably feel very fish out of water a lot if you aren't into audio or music. It's not really a requirement for the more operational types of roles, but it helps keep you more engaged with the culture and connected to others.

* Upward mobility and internal transfers only seem to happen when people leave, threaten to quit, a department gets re-orged or if you have the mental fortitude to navigate through a weird set of politics to make it happen.

* Company has a tendency to over-hire for entry level roles because so many people just want in on the ground floor and are willing to take whatever job they can get.

* Design, sales, and marketing has been through a ton of changes in structure and leadership and is basically now one giant department. Lost a lot of talent with all the shakeups.

* Lack of consistent HR for years caused a myriad of issues from bad experiences for candidates, confusing performance review processes, the proliferation of poor management practices, etc.

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Small company, so hard to get hired

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The company is growing, so there are pains associated with that, and unfortunately we all have to learn from them together.

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iZotope used to be a great place to work, but now is overrun with folks who negatively contribute to the culture. It honestly began to feel like an episode of The Office or Office Space (including a very inappropriate 'anti-harassment' seminar, Michael Scott-style).

Career development is extremely scarce, and lots of folks are in dead end jobs while the company continually hires from outside. Loyalty is not rewarded, and backroom deals and favoritism for promotions are common.

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Overly coddled engineers, inconsistent messaging from leadership, too much meddling by incompetent middle management and culture of fear. Compensation is way lower than average for similar positions in other tech companies

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Small company with growing pains

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Some growing pains typical of a company scaling up. But the sky is the limit for iZotope.

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Software releases are often very stressful (though they are getting less so).
No formal professional development program is in place. Everybody is expected to innovate on their own bootstraps.
Resources are often tight, and important infrastructure often gets neglected in favor of getting products out the door.