Pros
- Good software engineers who work hard
- Free lunch once a week
- Free Vitality Health Insurance
Kontras
- Chaotic, top-down toxic culture with low trust in people to do their jobs
- Management style feels controlling rather than empowering
- Constant fire-fighting across teams
- Poor planning, with project managers often operating in panic mode
- Non-technical roles with technical titles always in panic mode
- Client raised tickets sent straight to developers with no proper triage
- Under-resourced QA with a bad attitude towards developers and a weak support processes
- Excessive reporting and monitoring that adds little value
- Top down blame culture rather than accountability from senior leadership
- Added to out-of-hours WhatsApp groups without consultation, blurring boundaries between work and personal life