Top-heavy feature factory masquerading as a progressive software house - Software Engineer bei Uswitch: Mitarbeiterbewertung

1.0
14. Dez. 2018
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Pros

- The product itself is genuinely beneficial to the general public. - Free breakfast, gym, coffees, soft drinks, fruit. - They issue modern hardware and grant flexibility in your development environment. - Nice office location.

Kontras

- Information about how the company operates is withheld by default. The company has a culture of actively seeking out information but does not have people who are willing to offer it. - Self-professed unicorns in management positions systemically erode confidence and trust in lower level employees. - Pay is nothing special given the cost of working in central London. - Lip service paid to personal development. No one actually cares about you. - The primary programming language used was not the one advertised in the job spec and tested in the interview process. - Implicit expectation that people take their work home with them. The business continuity plan is, conveniently, that employees take their laptops home. - Constant reshuffling of team structure with no announcements leading to confusion about who works where. - Our team lead was consistently absent leaving us without direction. This was spun as us being self-starters, but really it just lead to a random assortment of tasks being tackled at any given time. - Open office environment is incredibly noisy with the aforementioned unicorns happily shouting at each other over the heads of teams between them.

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Thanks for taking the time to leave a review - it’s good to hear that you’re a fan of the product, our HQ and the amazing in-office perks we offer, but clearly not everything about your experience here was as positive. We know that the open-plan office can be distracting for many - while it encourages more people to talk directly rather than from behind a computer, it can get pretty noisy! Which is why we have plenty of quiet spaces, like the Library, where people can retreat to if they need to. As you may have seen in another of our responses, we’re currently making some significant improvements to our performance management processes, which include clear and measurable ways of working. We believe that these changes will help to set much clearer expectations around behaviour and accountability, as well as improving the way we communicate, share information and support managers with the personal development of their teams.

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