Datasite reviews

3.8

69% would recommend to a friend

(634 total reviews)
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Rusty Wiley

77% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Datasite has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 634 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Datasite employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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634 reviews
1.0
Nov 6, 2018

Avoid this company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You'll have a job. You'll receive a salary,

Cons

1. It has the highest concentration of incompetent, dishonest, lethargic back-stabbers. 2. There is very little management, if at all. It's mostly chaos until the next major crisis presents itself (almost every few months) when the most evil of them fire the most docile of them. 3. Mostly managers here. No developers. 4. The quality of developers they have is pathetic. I cannot begin to describe the foolishness in this company, whether in developers or managers. 5. The less than a handful of reasonably good developers that there are, are treated very poorly. 6. The management is conniving. 7. They're not in a good financial position, to put it in the most gentle of manners. 8. They wouldn't know a good developer if they had one sitting right under their noses. 9. The environment is very hostile. Very, very, very hostile. Extremely toxic. 10. There is an inordinate amount of disparity in workload levels. If you're good, you'll die under the workload because the rest of the 99.888888% of the company are really doing nothing. Especially the ones at the top are the least occupied. 11. Middle managers come to the office sometimes, sometimes not. No one cares. You mostly won't find them at their seat or in the rooms. There is zero transparency, zero accountability. When they do appear, they appear for about 5 hours or so, all the time checking Facebook or Linked In, and chatting. And they'll stop in the middle of the sentence as soon as the clock strikes whatever time they've set themselves to leave. 12. You won't believe the technical illiteracy of people managing the company, even in technical functions. They're laughably absent-minded, technically incompetent idiots. The list is endless but I'll stop here. For your own sanity's sake, avoid this company at all costs.

1.0
Apr 22, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The coworkers we generally the best. Although the pettiness of some of the employees got in the way of productivity. They were flexible if work was being accomplished.

Cons

They manage by Reduction in Force. This means that at any time you could be laid off regardless of your years of service or productivity. This is the result of being a chronically highly leveraged company. Being laid off was the best thing to happen to me. Ultimately I landed on my feet and my income doubled within 4 years. At the time it was a jarring experience and taught me never to never trust C level execs.

1.0
Dec 26, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I worked for/with a pair of IT VP's that I respected, and who respected me. Soon after I left, both VP's in IT left the company. SO GLAD I got out when I did.

Cons

I'd been lucky enough to work for companies with an awesome culture. I didn't even think to assess Merrill's culture when I joined as an IT Director. My bad. The culture was very tribal, with a clear lack of communication at the Sr leadership level, and very often a complete lack of respect. Rather than work with IT, the business created a shadow-IT organization and worked to undermine formal IT. I knew 6 months in that I needed to get out, but it took me 18 months to make the transition. I learned my lesson and found a GOOD company with a GOOD culture, or at least one that better matched my values. While there are some who are very happy at Merrill, I'd recommend against an IT career there unless they've cleaned shop in the business area. (very doubtful)

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