Pros
Free food in kitchen most people you work with day to day are great
Kontras
Moving entirety of engineering to India Little to no opportunities to advance upwards Budget tight for anything US related in terms of engineering, yet they are throwing barrels and barrels of dollars at new India center CTO claimed that new India dev center is being opened due to lack of available workforce here in the US for development. Pretty obvious that isn't true in the slightest (any kind of basic, rudimentary analysis of the market and workforce availability will show you that there are tons and tons of developers available for hire in the US, just not at the paltry and meager rates EV pays individuals...). They tried to do the something similar with moving the operations center to India but got shut down hard. On the same note, CEO claimed that with the move to bellevue, employees will get better pay... nope - it's gotten worse, and HR/Executives hide behind some nebulous 'market research' they've done about what people should get paid. No wonder people are leaving left and right. Lots of senior developers leaving because they're not getting commensurate pay and little respect from CTO/executive groups. Another review mentioned going away from the Microsoft stack, and that is also a huge con. I won't say there aren't reasons to go away from C#/.NET and the IIS webservice stack, but to do it simply for the sake of doing it (no matter what excuses might be thrown out there about scalability - MS has done a lot to make .NET scalable and the problems EV has can be solved by rearchitecting a lot of the current solutions, it's not a symptom of the technologies used at all) makes no sense and I can only join the other reviewer in speculation as to why to drop it entirely. Does certainly seem like engineering executives are largely filled out with friends of the CTO, seems pretty nepotistic. Pay being low has always been a staple for EV since years ago (reviews here will tell you that much), but the benefits generally made up for it (decent health/vision/dental), good location (Bothell pretty good to get to from where most of the employee base lives), people you worked with, company culture. Now, with the company being located in Bellevue and the company culture having become significantly more corporate, its not worth it to work for EV at this time. That, and the few remaining US developers being overworked and struggling under the weight of maintaining the old systems and attempting to also develop new solutions within said systems, not being paid nearly enough, and not being afforded really any respect by upper management, only reinforces that conclusion.
