Vericept Employee Reviews for Software Developer

"Desperate times but not a career plus"

What do you like about working at Vericept?

"It was a good bunch of developers (until we were suddenly all laid off). Deadlines were reasonable."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Java folks - Spring & Hibernate, SQL (Oracle and postgres)Server folks - C (not C++) and regular expressionsDBA folks - didn't have any but needed oneQA folks - automation, flexibility, usual stuff"

What don't you like about working at Vericept?

"Watching the Waltham, MA (new HQ) suck the life out of the Denver (founding) office. None of the people I worked with in Denver are still with the company.Layoff was very east-coast in style. everyone sent home at 3 PM with a number to call at 7 PM. At 7 PM the CFO read us a 3 sentence message and hung up without so much as a good-bye. Individually escorted in by temp security guard to pick up our stuff and do outprocessing paperwork a few days later. Two weeks after that, they announced a large mezzanine financing round.They hired several new QA guys away from other companies and laid them all off within 4 months. QA turnover was about 100% in the last year due to bad management/workload."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop trying to sell the company and start building it instead."