Great experience but average pay - Programmer Freelancer Employee Review

4.0
10 Nov 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The CEO has the excellent attitude that anybody can fix any problems they see. Any time someone whinges he makes them in charge of said problem. Also, you get to write a lot of code. Not many meetings or process. Also, great on your resume and great experience, much better than you'd get at big 4.

Cons

The old cliche holds true in this case: middle management is incompetent. Product managers are fine for the most part, but the senior engineers / team leads are not team players. It's fine that a company has problems, but being forbidden from fixing them is truly frustrating. Eng team leads tend to insist that you do things their way, which ultimately means you can only ever amount to a mediocre impersonation of them, thus appearing inferior. Due to eng team lead incompetence (and CEO also de-risking the business), profits are low.

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Freelancer Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review on your time with us - we’re pleased you had a great experience :) To your point about management, we feel it is a little harsh to say our team leads are incompetent, but we also appreciate that different viewpoints are healthy, and open feedback like this helps us evaluate what we can do to improve. We are currently assessing how we can provide better support to our managers, and if you are open to discussing your thoughts on this in complete confidentiality, we would love to hear from you.

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