avoid at all costs - Senior Engineer Crowder Consulting Employee Review

Given good amounts of freedom to create solutions. It's a good stepping stone for a graduate Java developer.

It's a stepping stone for graduate Java developers. Expect to see some ugly code. But not all of it written by graduate devs, a lot of it is written by hydraulic engineers who fancied a go at computers. Even uglier code! And then there's the Java written by former Delphi developers.... Limited scope for progression, it's a small company that writes a very niche product. You'll learn how to write Java but not much else. No code reviews and pushing straight to master. Ever increasing pile of defects left to collect dust. Developers doing manual testing and writing the test plans. Frequent and substantial changes to requirements late in dev cycle. Java devs writing PL/SQL. Uncompetitive pay and benefits. General mistrust among management of most staff. Supporting clients on years old versions of code. Playing lunchtime football will help your professional progression and you will be given more opportunities. If not, you will see colleagues who do be favoured over you. You're expected to wear business attire for some reason. The development team is not client facing. No headphones in the office because "if you can't concentrate listening to people shouting about their mushroom sandwiches, how can you expect to concentrate while listening to music?!" This paired with an open plan office makes for an unproductive developer. You may be tasked with babysitting a long standing member of the team who is incapable of producing functional work individually. The work they do produce by themselves does more damage than good.

Great company, laid back management style, trusting of employees

Promotions are rarely given out