Good place to work and grow - Test Automation Engineer Worldplay Employee Review

- Company provides lots of opportunities to grow. If you are even slightly interested and show the drive for certain tech or area, you will have free hands to try it and work on it. - Great work-life balance is also a benefit. Peers care about people and you feel support around you. It is about cultural fit. - Even though product service stack is small and not under heavy load the architecture and technologies used at state of the art (AWS,k8s,Go,redis,ElasticSearch,NATS,RabbitMQ,MongoDB,PostgreSQL,gRPC) - Cloud based automated CI/CD, various pub/sub mechanisms for any scale situation, asynchronous event driven design

- Company is driven from revenue perspective not as a tech company. The focus is on sales, not on product development. Lack of transparency in recent times. - The roadmap is practically non-existent, only stays for couple months each year and the company pivots/chase any new investor/client wishes. Each year its totally different feature set (or even entire service stack) being developed that nobody but single client asked for. - Hiring is stuck for long time, due to below market compensation. Can't attract senior talent. - Despite the cloud CI/CD, release cycle is 2-4weeks with quite archaic QA processes. Main reason is that one major part of the architecture - the main product(PHP) - carries unmaintainable technical debt. Automated tests are almost non-existent and it does hurt.

- There are a lot of good people at this company so it's easy to make new friends - Overall, the culture is positive - Fun events

- Leadership is male-dominant; there is a serious lack of inclusion, diversity, and cultural awareness which all leads to microaggressions. - There are a number of male egos on the leadership team. Employees often have to tiptoe their way around big egos. - Performance reviews are meaningless as they do not include a conversation about raises or bonuses. Employees lose ambition as a result. There are employees who have worked at this company for 5+ years and have never had a raise and are quietly resentful. - Compensation is lower than market rate. - Benefits are average. There is no health spending account. - Lack of direction. The company does not have a clear vision of the product that they are building and it appears that they are in no rush to improve. - The company is building a product that consumers are not looking for. They spend too many resources on developing features that are specific to one client's needs. - The clients that they want to focus on are religious organizations. They need to shift their market focus if they want to make money.