Inexperienced Team Leader and Micromanagement - Senior Frontend Developer Hostaway Employee Review

2.0
2 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The team exhibits strong intercommunication and a willingness to assist each other, fostering a collaborative environment. There's excellent communication with Quality Assurance (QA) members, who possess extensive knowledge of the overall business process.

Cons

The challenges include a legacy tech stack and micromanagement, compounded by an overcomplicated codebase and a lack of experience. The absence of a structured onboarding process further complicates matters. Despite the availability of stable, external libraries, there's a preference for rewriting all components and utilities in-house. This approach leads to unnecessary reinvention and strains resources, as the team lacks the manpower to maintain these custom-made libraries. Technical debt is high, and there's a closed-mindedness to discussing alternative viewpoints. Programming is done strictly and blindly, often just copying code without a deep understanding of programming principles. Established programming principles like SOLID, KISS, and DRY are not followed. Overall, there's significant dissatisfaction with management and the organization of the codebase.

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5.0
25 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote culture, good team, interesting product, competitive salary

Cons

Sometimes the communication between teams could be better, and onboarding documentation can be more detailed. But nothing that is dealbreaker.

1.0
1 July 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Remote work, good pto, pay is not bad.

Cons

The targets are extremely difficult to hit, and if you don't hit them, they'll put you on a PIP quicker than you can blink. You're also graded on Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), even though your sole responsibility is booking meetings for Account Executives.

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