Braintribe Reviews

I was replacement for one lady who went to maternity leave. Her position obviosly was Scrum Master on one project and Release Manager for another project. Since I am an eastern european and I have experianced a lot of attempts of discrimination of this country this "organisation" was nothing less in that. The Release Manager position was given to me as an Service Consultant tittle in order not to have full rights to execute and work as an Manager. Some childish Austrian manager was bringed to manage us, calling the people "Dudes" and acting supperior as an Austrian to other foreigner nations. Calling the engineers "Poor you" and was not working at all only a couple meetings and forwarding reports which I wrote. Telling that they know SCRUM and asking me to create their Jira Filters and Kanban board and acting Managers where they don't have any clue from Management and SCRUM. The policy in the company is, on which project people are needed they are transfered there, jumping from project to project. Management changing the Roles of the people depending what kind of weather we have today. If someone was Head of Dev today tomorrow he will be only and engineer. Definatelly chaos. As as Scrum Master I teached them a lot, but since I was a foreigner even with a written contract of the role they were indirectly dicriminating and not giving me the empowerment which the Scrum Master as a Team Leader should have. So you have another Austrian Leader under you no matter if you have signed a contract or not. One so called "Head of Dev" said: "there were be always someone else, the contract doesn't matter". Forcing you to speak German and being nervous if you don't try to speak German even the organisation language was English. A lot of two faced people there, also employees working 15 years or more where obviosly if you want to teach them on another way of working, they are refusing you (if you release a bird from a cage which was living there the whole life, will think that releasement in nature will be desiease). A lot of people who are hiding and not working, so I was a thread when I was reporting forgotten tickets. On the begining they tried to hide 300 euros bonus from my salary, when I noticed then they sent me after a couple of months, at the end they tried to force me to sign an mutual agreement in order to pay me 15 days less. In 10 months 6 people have left the Organisation (I am writting organisation since this is definatelly not a company) and thats is a total disasster. Since I have heard a lot of bad rumurs about Braintribe around Vienna, now its clear to me why they don't post their Job Ads on the Austrian portals anymore. They are hiring people from other countries countries like Serbia, Ukraine in order act superior and don't have any law problems.

Total anarchy, management is uncapable (laying to customers, promising towers and cities, then whole development team suffers due to their incompetence), in some cases angry customers. Very big people in out frequency change, people get fired all the time without any empathy what so ever, usually lead people, but not allways the case, company was many times on the edge to be broke but somehow it recovered. Also the software which they are building there is closed source, and it is used only for their customers, you won't be able to use it in future as a reference. No paid overtime ever. Company strategy constantly changing (somethimes on weekly basis). They are writting their inhouse tools for anything (not always a good solution, sometimes you should use something from the market).