BestPrice.gr Reviews

4.3

88% would recommend to a friend

(27 total reviews)

84% positive business outlook

BestPrice.gr has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 27 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The BestPrice.gr employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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27 reviews
2.0
23 Oct 2020

Wrong people in key positions

Recommend
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Pros

Good salary. I am very happy with my team. You did great work considering the toxic environment.

Cons

I was hired in a leading position aiming to initiate their processes and improve their codebase. After some months of huge effort, my team members did a great job. We introduce coding principles and methodologies. At the same time, we were also delivering production features and bug fixes. During this period, we were receiving too much pressure from the upper members. They fired a guy in a very bad way without any kind of formal evaluation. Essentially, that was my triggering point. They were making amateur designs for Enterprise features and we had to implement them. There was not any kind of research or thinking behind their decisions. They could not distinguish the priorities and efforts. After 4 months I submitted my resignation. Even if I was in a leading position, and I introduced many things, no one asked me why I did it. They stop talking to me. From their perspective, I am a traitor just like all the other guys that are leaving the Company. Since they did not ask for any feedback they never gonna change. They will always believe that they don't do mistakes and we are the traitors and the "bad" characters. During my professional career, I have left several companies. I have never seen such amateur behavior. I have never written a negative review. Since they don't ask for feedback, they don't want to change, so all the senior people will keep leaving and the list with the negative evaluations will keep growing.

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BestPrice.gr Response
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Hi there - thanks for your review! We are sorry about your negative experience. Very few people have ever left us, while a lot more have stayed with us for long years. Also, no-one is considered a ‘traitor’ or anything like that - we do have a great relationship and regularly get in touch with most of the few ex team members who now work elsewhere. There is no list of ‘senior people leaving’ - on the other hand our team is growing rapidly. We are 30% more than pre-covid and we will keep hiring. Last but not least, we do make mistakes which we happily admit and learn from. We wish you a better experience on your next company.
4.0
17 Nov 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Working at BestPrice was like being part of the Phaistos family. The senior managers always treated me with respect and as a colleague. * The management applied enough pressure to keep us focused on the right things, but they were all very forward thinking, understanding and gave guidance when needed. * When I joined I had limited experience, however I was given plenty of time to learn and evolve. The senior system administrator was also very patient with me watching over his shoulder, explaining to me when necessary and patching up when I broke things. I owe him a lot for helping me grow into the engineer I am now. * With the experience I amassed working here I was offered a job in a major tech company. * There was no strict time pressure on delivering anything, as long as we were working towards the right goals and there was incremental improvement. * We were given freedom to choose any technology and any tool to get the job done. We got to pick our favourite language, software stacks and experimentation was allowed. * We got to play with all the latest and greatest. If there was a blog post about some new service, api or tool, we would check it out and see if it fit. * From a diversity perspective there was a good percentage of female engineers. * The offices are located in the Science and Technology Park of Crete (STEP-C), located on the outskirts of the city, accessible via bus, has ample parking space, cafeteria and facilities.

Cons

* Wages were unsatisfactory. * There was no promotion process to speak of, or any way or level to climb. This severely hurt in the retention of senior and skilled engineers. * The two core developers and owners have been in these positions for many years, are exceptionally skilled and have built almost everything themselves. Combined with the lack of other senior engineers this has caused a huge skill gap. When new developers are hired it is hard for them not to feel like imposters. * There is no focus on junior / intern engineers to help them grow and evolve the company in the long term. * Meetings were not very frequent, but they would tend to overrun, sometimes exceeding office hours.

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