Very degraded company, no investment on employees - Software Engineer Opensoft (Portugal) Employee Review

Thank you for your review. As a team of software engineers who like to think and have genuine passion for work, this must be reflected in our company’s culture. So we are very pleased to hear that you liked the projects, systems and team that you worked with. We take the working conditions really seriously, and since most of our teams work in our clients facilities, we are continuously monitoring their working conditions. Most of the time we must find the best balanced solution between our vision of a great working space and the client’s vision of the same space, this should never be below of what is a comfortable set of working conditions. The problems you mentioned occured in a particular client facility. Lately this facility has been subjected to major improvements including AC and furniture renovation. As for lunch space and conditions, we love it when our co-workers join us for lunch at our office, which is located 5 minutes away from the mentioned location. This is an area of concern to us, so we take every feedback very seriously. Needless to say that it is not always possible to have a critical system up and running, with the high level of demand we work with, and include non planned activities in the project plan. As stated, we work with interesting businesses and very large systems. That is why innovation areas, strategic project framework improvements and techs in which we want to improve our knowledge as a team, are planned annually. They are represented as company goals and guidelines and are presented to all employees in the company’s kick off, each year. By the end of the year, through a combination of company’s results and employee performance, each employee is financially acknowledged by the effort invested in the pursuit of the company’s annual goals. Furthermore in an effort to improve the work/life balance, we allow the conversion of after hours work in extra time off. To start working in our team, everyone gets a 40 hours technical welcome pack, with training contents designed to help get into our tech stack and development framework. It is not true that if someone leaves the company, he or she has to reimburse the amount spent in training. The training of employees is understood as an investment in the future of the company and personal growth. So, in some specific training, if the employee leaves the company in the period up to 2 years after the training, our company policy states that he or she should reimburse some amount, proportionally to the remaining time. The company policy is a regulation, known to everybody in the company. We are sorry to hear that our training investment, during the year you were part of our team, didn’t work for you. This review is a valuable input to our ​​continuous improvement. We are all dealing with a new work paradigm. Since you have ideias how to improve it, I invite you to discuss this subject with us, please email me directly to msousa@opensoft.pt.