Great Company Except for Engineering Team - Software Engineer Koddi Employee Review

3.0
24 July 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The company is good with lots of benefits and great culture. They have an annual retreat where they fly out employees from all branches to a different part of the country to spend a few days. Biweekly Lunch and Learns, snacks and drinks, swag for new hires including a small Away suitcase. On the software engineering side of things: you learn a lot in a short time.

Cons

Things may have changed since my leave, but when I was there in 2019, the engineering team was absolutely toxic. Just to name a few: - Seniors make you feel stupid for asking questions - Asking for help was almost always answered with a "No" - Was once furiously told that I was "literally wasting all of our time" while getting assistance. No repercussion for person who said that, no follow up. How do you call that a team? - Spoke out about not getting assistance and was told to keep on asking... "Type A Personalities" isn't an excuse for behavior that causes a toxic team environment.

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Koddi Response
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Hi there! Thank you for your review, we are truly sorry to hear about this experience. We are a people first company, so it is extremely important to us that each and every employee feels valued and heard and we have high standards for how everyone is treated. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our employee experience; we recently began launching entry surveys to get input from our current employees on how everything is going. We would love a chance to understand your experience better so no other employee has to go through a similar circumstance. If you are open to it, please reach out to us by contacting us at peopleandculture@koddi.com. We hope you reach out directly so we can rectify this. Thank you, The People & Culture Department at Koddi

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Pros

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Cons

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