Pros
- Still you can find some nice people to work (if you search hard enough).
Cons
I’ve worked as a senior software developer in this company for 5 months and I can’t regret more. It was a very bad overall experience for me. Let me explain why. They have 1 week of onboarding (they call it academy week) when someone joins. In this week you hear lots of nice things about this company and you say to yourself, wow what a nice place and a great culture but immediately after you start working you see almost nothing was correct about it. These are just some the bad sides of this organisation: - Zero transparency: Every decision, especially the important ones are getting done by a few people in private sessions. Then they inform others and say if you think it’s not a good decision please contact us freely and talk about it. But believe me you shouldn’t. The decision is already made and they don’t want opposite thoughts. - It’s not a tech-first company: They really try to advertise themselves as a tech-first company but they are definitely not. The main job is getting done by operation people and career managers. And they need a phone and an excel file to do their job. So there is no real need for their software even by introducing the one that should be used by careers themselves. - Lots of unnecessary and even strange tasks to do: Because of the above reason, technical tasks which mostly are getting defined and introduced by technical managers do not necessarily have value for the company. Most technical managers introduce some topics just to show off themselves, regardless of the effect (good or bad) on product or people. You see lots of strange tasks that will make you wonder why on earth people are doing this, instead of tons of technical debts and the things that really matter. - Technical managers for micromanagement: They are under pressure by the upper level to micromanage and it’s even getting worse when you see some of them are not really technical! Some of the technical managers don't have any knowledge about software development and they are just advanced in managing (micromanaging) and not leading. - Worst people and HR team: Immediately after first contact with this team, you would notice they don’t like to be bothered by you. If you need something from them, you will face a very cold and slow response. If you face any problem too, you shouldn’t rely on them, you are on your own. And there is nowhere to complain about it, because that culture is getting advertised by upper level management. I know lots of complaining about people and the HR team (including mine) which ended up with absolutely zero effect. - Almost no support for expats: As an expat you get just little help for getting your visa (which is actually their requirement too and not just yours) by a very bad company with lots of miscommunication which you will end up doing all by yourself. Absolutely no help regarding the relocation (bonus or whatever), language, getting legal things done or any other small support. - Horrible leadership: Leaders will tell you from time to time about their goal, which is getting richer and richer by making the company more expensive. It’s not a bad goal potentially but they are impatient and they don’t care about destroying teams or people’s career. - Bad place for passionate people: Engineer managers prefer to work with external people (consultants and temporary people) because they are not passionate about the company and they don’t question any decisions (or basically anything!), they just do the things that make their client (in this case their direct manager) happy. And in the end, I mentioned that they don’t care about people but I really felt it on my last day at work. After receiving a call at 9AM from the HR and people team, all of my accounts got deactivated and they didn’t allow me to even say goodbye to my friends. Everybody was shocked, we had to contact over phone for my farewell and when people asked about this behaviour, they demanded those people to remove their messages from public channels. This is the true attitude of this organisation. As a matter of fact, I wasn’t the only one facing this farewell, and probably wouldn’t be the last one too.