Horrible place to work as a software engineer - Software Engineer I Zygo Employee Review

1.0
26 June 2014
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Pros

I seriously don't know what to say here. Maybe some people are nice? I can barely reach 20 words minimum requirement LOL.

Cons

There's a lot to say here. Stagnant management: An easy small change would need a long time to propagate to the upper level management / system. Management doesn't understand software but still arragont about they know it. You are told what to do: And that is pretty much what you can do there. Management prepares the project for you and you finish it. No room for discussion. No choice of projects to work on. A small technical efficient change on implementation would take days for management to agree. Imaging explaining technology to people don't care or understand technology. That makes ppl frustrated. Projects are boring, non-innovative: Here it tights up to the last point. You are told what to do, so non-innovative management gives boring projects for sure. Poor software development environment: No easy develop environment setup, you have to write everything from scratch. I basically need to spend a lot of to time create tools for myself. A lot of core level software need to be re-design or rewrite for a better and a more understandable code structures. Yet the management is afraid the changes. You are on your own: People don't know software here, so you are on your own to solve the problems. No discussions happen because they don't understand the problem you are facing. The management even blame you for taking more time to make better approaches to the problem. Overall, I wish I can give a 0 star. It was a waste of time joining this company. Totally not recommended for software engineer.

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