14 Nov 2019
Bright Computing Software Developer reviews
3.4
63% would recommend to a friend
45% positive business outlook
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7 reviews
5.0
14 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
As a developer in the Amsterdam office the people I work with are great. There have been some rotten apples in the past but those are all gone now. Team leads and the CTO tend to listen and care about what you have to say. Probably almost all people are self-organizing and hard working and care about their work. The pay is good and the perks are nice, fridge full of drinks, fruit, ice cream, lots of cookies. Every Month there is "beers on bright" where there is music, alcoholic- and non-alcoholic drinks, cheese etc. Also there is a Foosball table, and pull-up bar. The software is improving quite a bit, old code is refactored, legacy stuff is being deprecated (and removed!) from the code base. CI is improving as are some other systems internal to development (but still some issues to be resolved). Recent versions of Python, C++. Features have to be implemented of course, but you still have a lot of freedom in the process. One day per week WFH is also an option.
Cons
The organization is really flat, and it works great in most cases. Some roles are simply not there. For example product management is very different from what I was used to from previous companies. The person fulfilling this role is not in the same office and is more sales-oriented, the communication is because of this a bit cumbersome. Luckily the CTO does have a technical background is also involved. You have to accept that priorities can change often, as new stuff comes up, that's just the way it is. The product is big, and has relatively long release cycles.
5.0
19 Apr 2018
great place if you are into scalable technology
Current employee, more than 3 years
Amsterdam
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- Being able to work with several interesting technologies (OpenStack, Kubernetes, machine learning, Ceph, InfiniBand) - Team is open to change. If you don't like how something is done or how something works, you can propose changes. If your proposal is accepted after discussion, the change is implemented. - Smart and friendly colleagues who are keen to help out - Nice to know that your work is being used to run (sometimes HUGE) clusters in many big name companies around the world - International atmosphere - Flexible working hours - Strong focus on customer satisfaction. As a result, our customers love the product and the support (which gets verry high customer ratings)
Cons
- New hires are mostly selected on technical skills, and not so much on personality. In the past this has resulted in some people joining the team who did not really fit in very well (and who were mostly quick to leave the job). Job interviews should not just be done over Skype, but also in-person. - As the company grows, it feels like some of the flexibility is getting more restricted out of fear that it is being abused by some. - Office is in a building that has 'top cooling' instead of proper AC, so on warm days in the summer it can be uncomfortable. - Senior management is in the US, which sometimes leads to communication culture incompatibilities with European team members - The company has gone through a number of changes in sales strategy over the last 2 years, which has caused disruption as some people in Sales had to be let go. For a while there was some negative sentiment around this also in the technical team (although this team itself was not affected). - The codebase is huge and has a long history, so there is/was quite a bit of technical debt. Only after many people complained about this, we now finally have time to modernise/refactor/rewrite code and get more serious about CI testing. - The product can be used in many different scenarios and configurations, which makes it very challenging to guarantee that everything is working properly. Release processes can take a long time.
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