Overall A Great Place To Work - Manager Avvenire Solutions Employee Review

The ability to learn and work on a variety of projects is awesome. You get to work with many projects with many clients and get exposure to many different development styles, processes, and, systems. The projects can range from bleeding edge technologies to legacy systems. The team at Avvenire is great, there are great developers on the team. Management works as hard as they can to be flexible with you. Instead of taking a whole vacation day for a doctors appointment, for example, you have the ability to leave early or come in late and make up the hours during the week. The culture is also pretty laid back and everyone is pretty easy going.

Infrequent but sometimes you have to work longer than normal hours, especially when projects go over budget. Would have preferred vacation days to be lumped into one PTO category rather than being segmented in sick, and vacation.

Diverse technology and projects; paycheck

provided hardware is underpowered and inferior; not current software tools; software not properly licensed; no personal access to MSDN or professional tools; no quality assurance personnel; no test plans; no organized code reviews; no organized training provided despite assertions to the contrary; employs brain dumps for certifications; no group training sessions; no time for training, nearly all hours need to be billable, regardless; sick days are provided but highly discouraged; struggle to get staging platforms, and even to get disk space for virtual servers you need to build for testing; uncomfortable old desk chairs; open seating with dissimilar job roles nearby, so distracting chatter; little oversight or project management; little use of the technology they attempt to implement for others; no process (lean or otherwise), so no scrums, retrospectives, planning sessions, etc.; predictably lots of extra meta-work, for example double-entry on timesheets and status reports; bare and sporadic performance reviews; hours are recorded in archaic fashion and schedules are highly inflexible; insurance benefits are weak; feedback is ignored or considered ‘boat-rocking’; All this and little chance to correct any of it because of the lack of meetings and discussions and reviews.