EZOPS Reviews

Management seems to lack a clear plan and doesn't effectively communicate with their staff. You can make suggestions and ask questions but don't expect to get a response. I was told during the interview process how incredibly busy they were and when I was hired I found the total opposite to be true. It wasn't uncommon to spend my day trying to find things to do out of sheer boredom. Also, they seem to have a bit of a staff turnover for such a young company. If you accept a position here make sure you keep an eye out for other opportunities because you never know how long your usefulness will last.

I'll break it down into a tech portion and a culture portion. Technically: There's great need to toss out a sizeable minority of the stack - it is clunky, prone to bugs and tough to reason about. I found only 1 senior engineer willing to admit that - the rest seemed to enjoy a lightweight form of gaslighting about it. Dev / Sys Ops is either advanced or lacking some crucial areas - but that's probably your fault, not theirs. Almost everyone in-house is a Java engineer, many with some of your standard ossified views on development. The team is spread throughout the world, so plan on 6am meetings and side-eye for leaving at 6pm. Culture: Often cliquish, combative, contradictory and cheap - with little respect for life outside of the 9 to 12 hour days expected from you. RE: Cliquish- from another review: "Decisions that would affect your livelihood will be made with no consideration at hand." Your boss might show up friday morning and cancel your weekend. For a job paying below market rate - it's simply not a reciprocal situation when your managers are people with sizeable stakes in future profits and little empathy. RE: Combative - often the response to complex engineering tradeoffs is 'just make it work'. If at that point you continue to explain the tradeoffs on the horizon - there is often little bandwidth for discussions. Either you are trusted or a troublemaker; and no engineering discussion should ever be so personal. Don’t believe me? just see the review from Mar, 2016 where an employee rebuts previous reviews. Just remember - C level execs and Senior Managers are employees who can write glassdoor reviews also. RE: Cheap -This firm is the definition of low-ballers and at some point that’ll get offensive. Other side effects include - inaccurate project scoping, being pennywise, pound foolish - and then being upset in hindsight. RE: Contradictory - when it serves them - they’re a ‘FinTech Leader’ with offices around the world. When it serves them - they’re a ‘start up’ asking for 60+ hours a week from people without a vesting schedule, bonus opportunity or a decent commision. They’re Senior engineers but react to common software development hurdles like it wasn’t a foreseeable problem or side-effect of the above. Expect to be thrown under the bus.