Growing business with toxic work culture - Anonymous employee IMED Hospitales Employee Review

Facilities, nice people, medical devices

Really bad management, lack of communication, no induction at all or support

- The location of the office is in a calmed sunny region near services. - The people you work with (developers, sysadmins...) are so friendly, calmed and intelligent. Also funny. - Also, they (coworkers) explain and help you to understand the hard big project and how everything is set up.

- Any modern or Agile metholology is used (Kanban, Scrum...) - Lack of requisites/documentation - No User Stories, tasks - No daily stand ups or similar - In fact, no periodic meetings at all (planning for example) - There is no tests, or just a few wich are abandoned (No QA). Don't mention TDD or BDD as it could look like magic. - Management is sarcastic and not communicative, being impossible to change his mind to use modern methodologies or at least write some good requirements. - Continuous missunderstandings about what we are asked to do - Sometimes management does not tell you only what to do, but also how to do it. Good luck trying to tell management why now exists a better way than 20 years ago. - No branches or pull requests in the version control (hey, at least they don't use just folders) - Same DB for all developers instead one for each developer. - No fixtures or mocked data for DB, so data in development can be wrong or in inconsistent state. - To prevent the above, sometimes data is copied from production. Patients privacy could be improved avoiding this. - When someone edits a file, nobody can edit it, it is locked. - Lots of bugs when someone compiles because shared DLLs and similar stuff. - Methodology is: Management calls you suddenly to an office -> tells you what management wants -> you start doing it -> management changes half of what told you or says management did not say to do that -> continuous delays that offer management the excuse of "no time for Scrum or tests etc" -> repeat. - Low salaries for software developers, 18k - 24k, for people with 1 - 4 years of experience on it's position, some with Engineer titles from University. - A few people have become really needed to understand and being able to mantain the main monster application (if they leave, the development would be very compromised). Those have better salaries, of course. - Because all the previous points, of course there's no professional growth, just understand better the current infinite project. - Coworkers are great, but don't have willpower to try to change current methodologies (mostly understandable if they can't...). They accept the current state of things and don't know their real value as software developers. - In summer, sun light comes throught a transparent skylight and goes straight into the eyes for ~15 mins. True Story. - Operating Systems are not updated to last version (security risks?). - Development tools are not updated either. - I was working with an OS without serial number. With the message in the desktop background saying it. You know :) -Read all the above again considering that this is for developing software for medical management mainly and imagine possible consequences. All this is just for the IT department, known as Intecsal 2011 SL, not for IMED Hospitales itself (but nobody knows the IT department name so is useful to include the hospital name)