Good place to work in open source - Software Engineer Collabora Employee Review

4.0
8 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Small company so it's very easy to make a nice reputation for yourself if you are polite and helpful. Loads of resources available, free laptop (lenovo thinkpads mostly), wiki pages to get you started quickly and mostly management is ok with you learning a bit on the job.

Cons

Not working from an office can be a bit daunting, you can sometimes be alone at 3am trying your best to hit a deadline and running into a brick wall over and over again. Sometimes management can be a bit poor with organization at times depending on the department.

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5.0
9 Oct 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

3rd party contract, gives a good rate.

Cons

No cons that I know of.

3.0
26 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

easy to submit time sheet, paid every 2 weeks, accumulate vacation, not onsite so no micro management - no punching a time clock, just electronically submit time.

Cons

everyone is very hard to understand due to strong accents. Staff reads from a script each time the call - even to check in. Quite condescending to not have a real conversation - even responses are scripted.

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Collabora Response
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At Collabora we do not see accents as an issue, we are an international company and our accents are a great sign of diversity. Sorry if you felt that conversations were script based and tick boxed, this isn't common practice and nor the way we operate.
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