Tech company lacking competent tech people - Software Developer Spirae Employee Review

2.0
14 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- CEO is clearly a cool guy - Most people relatively friendly - They have many customers

Cons

- pay is god-awful for any competent developer. - None of the people who matter have relevant CS/Software engineering experience - People ranked higher than you will likely have less relevant experience than you - questionable architecture on their software back-end - absolutely no documentation on anything. It is really pathetic how little documentation they have for their software. - uses subversion instead of git and refuses to switch (what is this, 2003?) - employees can be hard to work with, especially those without software experience - requirements changed for everything weekly - NO SECURITY on anything. even the VPN had an http-only endpoint. - For some reason chose to use windows as their server operating system. Very questionable choice for a firm that already has almost no security. - seasoned developers do not understand basic software principles such as black-box programming - hires people without software experience into important positions - has one developer who will NOT STOP TALKING DURING MEETINGS. your 10 minute company standup will take 1.5 hours. No, I am not joking. Extremely frustrating.

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5.0
19 Oct 2017
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Pros

Small group of people in a friendly and open environment.

Cons

Less people for the amount of work

1.0
25 June 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The Management Team has a good understanding of electric utilities and power system engineering.

Cons

The Management Team lacks significant experience in commercial software products. The transition from one-off integration of renewable and distributed energy resources to an easily-configurable software product does not yet have tremendous public results. A 'top-priority' du jour approach does not benefit software design, development and test. Engineers are beaten down by a relentless cadence of release dates and implementations (without tremendous software product satisfaction); many are resigned to their fate and have lost the energy to try for improvements.

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