Good work / life balance - Senior Software Developer Raet Employee Review

4.0
15 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Flexible working hours: begin between 7am and 10 am, leave between 4pm and 7pm * Work / life balance is a reality and it is very enjoyable * Free fruit twice a week! * Benefits are great ** Lunch tickets, 9€ per day, 11 months a year ** Transport tickets, 72€ per month, 11 months a year ** Health insurance * Personally, I got one salary raise for my yearly performance and then a second one within the same year because the management layer considered that I was below my market value according to some market studies from an external consultancy company. They even improved that a bit! * For people fresh from the university, this is an amazing place to start from; there is a lot of shared knowledge amongst colleagues, great environment, nice people, management layer is really friendly and approachable, good teamwork in the office and fantastic schedule * Before leaving (leaving was kind of a surprise even for me) I shared with the managers my desire to improve in my career and follow a new path. In that moment I saw a lot of encouragement from the managers, support and willingness to help me achieve this new position. The career opportunities are there but you have to take the initiative and ask for it. They will give you advice

Cons

Regarding the project I worked in: * Obsolete technology from almost a decade ago * We were never given time invested in getting rid of the technical debt * We were never given time to upgrade infrastructure to stay up to date with the current version and current security fixes * We were never given time to upgrade the programming language version to benefit from the improvements in performance * So old the technology that we could not solve some bugs coming from external libraries because the newer version of those were either not compatible with our code version or the project had been simply discontinued several years ago Regarding the company: * A lot of people are leaving the company for various reasons. Not always it is something that has to do with Raet itself, but personal reasons or exciting job opportunities

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5.0
12 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good environment lovely place love it

Cons

Not friendly , far away from home

1.0
14 May 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible timing, work from home, free fruits on Tuesday's and Thursday's (one for each...they will make it to you very clear on the first day itself that u cannot take more than 1 :D )

Cons

This company is the most cheapest company I have ever worked with. We get cost saving emails every 2 days about some thing or the other. Lot of senior engineers are leaving and the company is replacing them with trainees or juniors. There is absolutely no recognition of hard work. Nothing! Very poor increments. Even for the good performers. Not a very friendly administration staff. They will not even accept your courier packages. For the testing staff - no career path! Just QA for life. No change in Designation. Very few managers to manage people (to save cost) hence there are very few people to listen to your problems. The company has started the Madrid branch just to save money! They have absolutely no affection towards the employees, they don't care if anyone leaves or not.

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