+1 We left Zenefits about 18 months ago after a series of colossal screwups on their part. I'm both amazed and not surprised that so many other companies continue to have similar difficulties with them.
We spent waaaay too much time dealing with their support team, constantly being shuffled around to different people. At one point we discovered they had left my co-founder's wife off of his policy for 3 months (later acknowledging this was their fault). They're an insurance broker, and they couldn't even sell insurance!
FWIW at the time we were also using Zenpayroll, and had a good experience with them.
We switched over to TriNet for everything mid-2014, which for us was a great choice. We have people in NY and CA, and once we hit 5 employees it was a no-brainer even with the monthly fee per employee. The health plans are much, much cheaper for a similar offering, and our support experience has been generally pretty good after a somewhat rough onboarding. Also all of the onboarding fees with TriNet seem to be pretty negotiable. But overall the most important thing is that we're saving money and spending very little time or energy worrying about HR matters.
Seems pretty clear to me that the right answer here varies case by case. My company sells enterprise software in a fairly niche market. Some people in Europe are squatting on our .com, so we have .io and .co and use both for various things. We're a startup but have achieved pretty good name recognition and visibility among our target customer base through various marketing activities and plain old hustle. Also if you google our name, the entire first page of results are refer directly to us (website, crunchbase, linkedin, etc.). So from where I sit it would seem to do a lot more harm than good to change our name at this point in pursuit of the .com. Respect for PG etc. etc. but this is not a one-size-fits-all question.
We try to get as much as possible up front, with a minimum of half of the first year up front. After that it's monthly or quarterly payments, depending on what we negotiate. So far all payments have been by check.
For context, we're early stage with a handful of initial customers, mostly small companies. Deal sizes in the five figures per year.
Battery performance is the key bottleneck slowing the adoption of electric vehicles, renewable energy, and longer-lasting, more powerful mobile electronics.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful web-based data analytics, machine learning, and visualization platform to enable better, safer, and more reliable batteries and other energy devices. We have early customer revenue, industry partnerships, and grant funding from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.
Voltaiq is looking for creative, experienced, and extremely talented software developers to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. We’re looking to fill out our initial team with someone who has full-stack backend experience both shipping features and managing multiple-server deployments.
We are looking to fill a position immediately, and will give preference to those with a broad knowledge base and a strong desire to learn.
Desired Tech Skills:
* Strong coding skills in one or more of the following: Python, Java, C/C++, Go.
* Experience using a web framework such as Django.
* Solid understanding of a web deployment stack: Cookies, sessions, websockets, asset management.
* Experience with ZeroMQ or a similar asynchronous messaging system.
* Knowledge of Git and experience committing to a team code repository.
* Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
* Strong command of development on Linux.
* Deployment experience is a plus: AWS, Salt Stack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Fabric, Nginx, uWSGI.
Other Prerequisites:
* Undergraduate or advanced degree in Computer Science, Physics, Math, Engineering, or a related discipline.
* At least 3 years of experience developing and shipping software.
* Willingness to travel occasionally for in-person meetings, conferences, and deployments.
* Strong team player with the ability to help build and work as a cohesive team.
* Applicants must be US Citizens or green card holders.
Compensation: Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits.
Location(s): SF Bay Area, NYC (we work remotely part-time, but you should have a base in or around SF or NYC).
Battery performance is the key bottleneck slowing the adoption of electric vehicles, renewable energy, and longer-lasting, more powerful mobile electronics.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful web-based data analytics, machine learning, and visualization platform to enable better, safer, and more reliable batteries and other energy devices. We have early customer revenue, industry partnerships, and grant funding from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.
Voltaiq is looking for creative, experienced, and extremely talented software developers to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. We’re looking to fill out our initial team with someone who has full-stack backend experience both shipping features and managing multiple-server deployments.
We are looking to fill a position immediately, and will give preference to those with a broad knowledge base and a strong desire to learn.
Desired Tech Skills:
* Strong coding skills in one or more of the following: Python, Java, C/C++, Go.
* Experience using a web framework such as Django.
* Solid understanding of a web deployment stack: Cookies, sessions, websockets, asset management.
* Experience with ZeroMQ or a similar asynchronous messaging system.
* Knowledge of Git and experience committing to a team code repository.
* Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
* Strong command of development on Linux.
* Deployment experience is a plus: AWS, Salt Stack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Fabric, Nginx, uWSGI.
Other Prerequisites:
* Undergraduate or advanced degree in Computer Science, Physics, Math, Engineering, or a related discipline.
* At least 3 years of experience developing and shipping software.
* Willingness to travel occasionally for in-person meetings, conferences, and deployments.
* Strong team player with the ability to help build and work as a cohesive team.
* Applicants must be US Citizens or green card holders.
Compensation: Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits.
Location(s): SF Bay Area, NYC (we work remotely part-time, but you should have a base in or around SF or NYC).
Software Developers — Full Stack/Backend/Deployment
Battery performance is the key bottleneck slowing the adoption of electric-vehicles, renewable energy, and longer lasting more powerful mobile electronics.
Voltaiq is developing a powerful web-based data analytics and visualization platform to enable better, longer-lasting batteries and other energy devices. We have early customer revenue, industry partnerships, and grant funding from the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.
Voltaiq is looking for creative, experienced, and extremely talented software developers to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City (remote will be considered for more senior applicants, US only). We’re looking to fill out our initial team with someone who has full-stack backend experience both shipping features and managing multiple-server deployments.
We are looking to fill a position immediately, and will give preference to those with a broad knowledge base and a strong desire to learn.
Desired Tech Skills:
* Strong coding skills in one or more of the following: Python, Java, C/C++, Go.
* Solid understanding of a web deployment stack: Cookies, sessions, websockets, asset management.
* Experience with ZeroMQ or a similar asynchronous messaging system.
* Strong command of Linux and deployments on Amazon Web Services.
Anyone else just go out and give one of these bikes a close once-over? That was me at Spring and 6th Ave. pawing the rack of Citibikes just a minute ago. I was going to start carrying around a roll of tape...
We spent waaaay too much time dealing with their support team, constantly being shuffled around to different people. At one point we discovered they had left my co-founder's wife off of his policy for 3 months (later acknowledging this was their fault). They're an insurance broker, and they couldn't even sell insurance!
FWIW at the time we were also using Zenpayroll, and had a good experience with them.
We switched over to TriNet for everything mid-2014, which for us was a great choice. We have people in NY and CA, and once we hit 5 employees it was a no-brainer even with the monthly fee per employee. The health plans are much, much cheaper for a similar offering, and our support experience has been generally pretty good after a somewhat rough onboarding. Also all of the onboarding fees with TriNet seem to be pretty negotiable. But overall the most important thing is that we're saving money and spending very little time or energy worrying about HR matters.