- Very steep learning curve with almost no training.
- The little amount of training is inefficient and virtually useless.
- Employee motivation absent. Numbers on a chart don't mean much for us. Another customer, although great, isn't really motivating on its own.
- Company finances in the shambles. Products they offer are uninteresting, not attractive, and with limited market need.
- Company has stronger opponents with more resources that could develop and sell a better product faster.
- Their main product will already look and feel be outdated by the time it hits the market.
- The product they are about to release already exists and has limited impact.
- No personal 15 min. smoking breaks (pauses-café under Quebec law)
- Lunch break is often under 1 hour
- Employees are expected to leave later than the end of their shift in an unpaid overtime scheme. The logic is that you cannot possibly finish your work at exactly 6 PM. If you finish earlier, you cannot leave sooner either.
- 9 hour workday paid 8 hours only
- Those things add up to hours of unpaid and unaccounted for work at the end of the month
- Bad work/life balance
- Company expectations too too high for salary/benefits.
- Premises very sketchy and claustrophobic. Premises feel improvised and not professional.
- Bathrooms
- Boss almost always demands working faster. Very demotivating, especially since salary and conditions aren't there to back it up. Doesn't assume that the company is what it is and has unreasonable expectations.
- Bad code practices, code smell
- No documentation/comments on methods/functions
- Code feels like patches over patches instead of a good functioning and well-structured program.
