CoCoNet Reviews

Obsolete technologies in main product: Java 1.5, JSF etc Poor equipment - most people are working on old i5s. IntelliJ community. Always shortage of test environments. Monolith app, gigantic codebase-build takes 20 minutes without tests on i5, 7min on i7. Full test run takes couple of hours in multiple Jenkins jobs. Code review is done only by experts(so in fact its none existent). No time for refactoring. Scrum-they have all but not scrum (scrum masters there are in fact team leaders, no product owner, demo is in fact team grilling by CEO himself, some teams don't even do daily, none was doing retro). Micromanagement: CEO takes part in every planing, demo, negotiates every estimation-that results in stress, painting grass green, stress etc. and at the end of the day developers have average 50% estimates overrun. You have to log your time in one of 30 task categories - insane.

I am sad to share that my experience was a highly unpleasant one. To start with the positive aspects the other individuals from fellow departments are highly proffesional and amazing to work with, however all these aspects pale in comparison to the CEO's behavior towards his employees. During my time at Coconet I was unfairly micromanaged to the point in which my mental health was affected. Even if the scheduled was advertised to be flexible I was scolded for not arriving in office at a certain time without prior discussion over the time I needed to arrive. To sum it up, the CEO is, in my opinion, not fit for a Management position in which he has to work with people as he displays toxic behavior. It is especially unfair to have such a person in charge of a person's career considering the need of individual growth as he has no skills that can be passed on.