Difficult to communicate with management - Web Developer Code and Trust Employee Review

- Great company and great leadership with frequent team outings and events. - Ability to work on a multitude of different projects, and the freedom to jump to different roles / tech stacks. - Free drinks / snacks - Coldbrew on tap - Good and affordable healthcare

- Can be hard to meet with management / leadership as they are always running around doing something - Salary is around average for the area; it's a smaller company so don't have as much money to pay super high salaries

An opportunity to get some work experience, but you will miss out on learning best practices.

SC is a right-to-work state – you can quit or get fired without cause. You will get fired without cause. 2022-23 There was a 95% turnover within 1 year • 4 quit without having another job • 10 were fired with no warning or prior conversation • 8 left for new opportunities Ownership asked current employees to write positive reviews to counter the bad reviews. The reasons for poor employee reviews: 1. There is no leadership. - I’d like to modify the use of “leadership” in previous reviews. There is no leadership, only ownership. - Ownership is too engrossed with other businesses to provide leadership. - There is no one looking out for the team or employees - The CEO is in sales but doesn’t understand software development - The CTO admits he’s not a manager 2. There is no management - Without management, there is chaos. - No one to structure projects based on knowledge or skills - No one to gauge employee performance - No one to understand your strengths or weaknesses - There is no middleman between ownership and the team 3. There is no HR - There is NO communication from the top down. 4. There is no planning, systems, or processes. - Without these, there is project chaos. - Chronic employee uncertainty and low morale - There is little to no research and user testing before, during, or after product development– Ownership considers this “a waste of time.” - You work on products that are overly complicated and feature-heavy. - Time is invested in designing and developing products with features that are not tested. Your Team: • The talented and experienced immediately look for work elsewhere, are fired, or rage quit. • The team is made up of friendly employees with little to no training or experience. • Arrogance is mistaken for competence. • If you are given responsibility, you will be blamed for what is wrong with the company. Without guidance, leadership, or management, how can an employee with little experience do a job well? - If you don’t do something the way ownership thinks it should, it's wrong. - You will be accused by ownership of doing your job wrong infront of your peers. Project Managers: - Given a lot of responsibility - Do not utilize project management software - There is no project planning - There is project chaos - Like in the 2000s, Project Managers interrupt your workday to hand out tasks and get updates. - Project management does not know what is going on with projects - This makes working remotely impossible. For women: - Ownership will not make eye contact (unless you are young and very skinny). - If you offer a suggestion, you will be cut off. - If you question a decision, ownership will perceive it as an attack. - The patriarchy is no stranger here – A man’s opinion holds more value than a woman’s. - The company operates much like a fraternity Low salaries: • You will not get a raise. • No metrics are recorded, neither for projects nor employee performance. You have nothing to compare your contributions to. • They’ve been in business for 5 years but call themselves a startup and use this as the reason for their low salaries. • You will have to provide your own workstation. Developers: • Freely admit the products they work on are built poorly and take too much time. • There are no systems, processes, or user testing • Developers have little to no experience, and their team leads’ guidance comes from little to no experience outside of Code /+/ Trust. Engineers are given a task and jump right in. • You will be removed from projects without reason. • Features to be developed are determined by ownership or project management