Crowder Consulting Reviews

- Multiple 'net-negative-producing' developers were seen as a 'fact of life' by management and never challenged. Their effect on the rest of the team was viewed as unavoidable. - Ambitions to work in an 'agile' way were regularly discarded with the slightest commercial pressure. - Senior developers were guilty of a level of 'sunk cost fallacy' in terms of persisting with poorly architected solutions. - There was an incredibly vast legacy code base which lead to developers spending a lot of time learning the existing solution rather than skills which are more universally applicable to development. - The technology stack was vastly out-dated, so a lot of the experience gained was not transferable to other enterprise environments. - Pay reviews were consistently low-balled, and required extensive negotiation regardless of an employees achievements through the year. - The office environment was managed in a very old-fashioned way in terms of quality-of-life issues, for example developers were required to wear suits and were forbidden from using headphones, even though the office was very noisy.

micromanagement, lack of career progression, lying management, inability to hold onto contracts, backroom deals made, corrupt directors, no interest in employees who don't "fit", employees who don't have a University Degree pushed out the back door