Terrible place avoid if you have alternatives - Senior Software Developer One Beyond Employee Review

1.0
5 Aug 2017
Recommend
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Pros

There isn't any except if you count having a job that pays a salary as a Pro.

Cons

1) High employee turnaround, you will get sacked on the first chance if there isn't a project for you to work on. Developers are seen as expendable in this company. 2) New developers get 0 hours of training yet they expect them to be productive from day 1. 3) Probation period is 6 months and it usually gets extended without any performance evaluation and feedback about your progress in the meantime. 4) Product managers are called "Architects" in this company and most of them haven't wrote a line of code from 2008 yet are making estimations without consulting with the dev team. 5) All projects start from the same template which by an architectural standpoint is terrible and the codebase is a mess. No one tries to write good code, they just rush into completing their tasks as there is no time to write good code and no one will appreciate it. 6) Working from home is frowned upon. 7) Be careful not to get sick very often as the Managing director will start sending his comical emails again urging you to rethink before taking a sick day. 8) Unfriendly people and the Managing director is one of the most obnoxious people i have met.

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One Beyond Response
8y
On behalf of DCSL Software, thank you for the comments. However we disagree with each and every point made as they do not match reality.

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5.0
21 Jan 2023
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Pros

Learning and self-improvement is highly valued.

Cons

None that I encountered during my employment.

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One Beyond Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review – it’s wonderful to know that you enjoyed your time working with us at One Beyond, and we’re delighted to see that you appreciated our commitment to encouraging progression within the team.
1.0
23 Jan 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most of my colleagues were nice and did gave a helping hand when needed. They pay on time. Work from home. 5* for inclusion and diversity 3* for work / life balance

Cons

Reading the last reviews here made me want to register and post a review myself, since they're all lies. Employees are usually unhappy here and it can be noticed judging by the quality of their work. Employees are usually ignored by their line manager. (both developers and QA) The anonymous feedback they replied with in one of the latest post is a joke that is being ignored. They don't address any of the issues the company is having in the monthly company meeting. Most of their QAs have left for similar reasons. We were usually assigned to more than 3 projects. Projects lack documentation. Devs and QAs are asked to handle scrum master/solutions architect tasks - writing acceptance criteria, link items from a board to another, assign and estimate tasks. There is little to no chance of getting a raise or a bonus at this company. I'm surprised how they still have clients, some of them did take a step back and took their business somewhere else.

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One Beyond Response
3y
Thank you for posting a review of your time with One Beyond. We are sorry to see that you feel the QA role is performing roles and tasks that should be in other functions. We have been honing our processes and approaches over decades of working in the industry, and that process never ends. We will continue to review our processes and approaches to our software development cycle. We dispute your comment that the leadership does not listen to or address the issues raised by the team – many of the fantastic changes we have made to the business over the years has come as a direct response to feedback or suggestions raised by our wonderful team-mates. We review our salaries at least annually throughout all of the countries we operate in and we pay above average.
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