An Unfortunate Experience - Anonymous employee Aareon Employee Review

1.0
2 July 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There's a KFC close by so you can drown your sorrows in Chicken.

Cons

I'm not going to prattle on with a large list of cons (there are many). Instead I will cover just a couple of the major offenders: The fully non-relational database is among the worst I've ever dealt with. More frustrating than the design and implementation itself, is managements INSANE views on the existing system and their complete rigidity to even consider reviewing its problems. Project leaders are so technically inept that it is truly shocking they're in the position they're in. With many fundamental flaws in the system, you can't simply sit down and talk through the issues with those leading the project as they simply don't have the technical capacity to have an intelligent conversation about the problems (the attitude of "well it's been like this for 20+ years" is held by most of those with any kind of power). I witnessed quite a bit of office bullying during my time with Aareon, juniors were targeted and made to feel pretty horrendous during normal working hours - it got unbelievably unbearable, felt like comprehensive school. They say you learn from the bad experiences in life, well if you want an injection of bad experiences to learn from, this is the place for you. Juniors beware.

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