FortyAU Reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(46 total reviews)

62% positive business outlook

FortyAU has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 46 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FortyAU employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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46 reviews
2.0
22 Aug 2020

No accountability

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You don't have to know a tech stack to work with it, so it's a great resume-builder and skill-broadening environment. There is almost certainly a developer in the company that can help answer any conceivable development question, if you seek them out and they are responsive.

Cons

There is no individual accountability; the attitude is that we're all friends and can trust each other, so there's no process in place for conflict. HR is nonexistent. Very strong self advocacy is absolutely necessary to do well here. Management is spread too thin to proactively or even reactively attend to employees' wellbeing, such as an uneven or too heavy workload, difficulties working with clients and/or other developers, feeling unwelcome or harrassed in the workplace, etc. Microaggressions are not dealt with. No clients are turned down for any reason. Many clients are difficult and some are outright rude and dismissive to the developers. There is no project management, so developers, who are not trained to deal with clients directly, suffer the treatment with no recourse. Many employees resort to working overtime when confronted with unrealistic expectations, because they are not trained to deal with clients and are told only to make them happy. Management will not stand up for employees against a client. Salaries are inconsistent across experience level, tech stack, tenure. There is no salary transparency. It is a "flat" organization, but that doesn't mean individual developers aren't treated and compensated very differently. Junior developers are not given any kind of structured mentorship and the seniors surrounding them are not given time or resources to mentor them, leaving the juniors at the mercy of the individual project, which may or may not have quality code or best practices to learn from. Code quality is inconsistent. Time estimates given by management are almost always low, and deadlines and scopes tend to creep unless the developers on the project happen to be good at deflecting such things. There is almost never budget for testing or QA, and teams are frequently scrambling just to get projects done. There is no formal communication between teams and no processes to ensure we don't make the same mistake more than once across many teams. Small projects frequently change hands with no documentation or recorded institutional knowledge.

3.0
23 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Relaxed dress code Interesting projects Wealth of peer knowledge Very talented developer staff The other devs were cool and good people.

Cons

No management rudder. Fun and relaxed doesn't mean no plan at all. The senior devs were doing all the project management. They are the real heroes of the company. But, they aren't equipped with the skills to handle client's expectations. Management would only show up when the client was pissed and that was just to brown nose and manipulate the client in to being calm. While asking the team to work 16 hour days 7 days a week to complete undocumented change requests. Rude clients (verbal abuse) with no management intervention. They just move you to a different team instead of supporting you to be successful when you make a mistake one month on the project. Little to no guidance during onboarding. I didn't know I was still in the onboarding process months into working on a project. There was no communication that I wasn't expected to be at 100%. So I worked myself to burnout to meet goals that didn't apply at the time. No one stopped me because I was cleaning out the project back log. By developers for developers isn't the best model if you understand developers. None of us were/are business leaders, we are developers. we don't have the skills to handle client relations which leads to clients taking unethical liberties and treating the teams like indentured servants as opposed to people that were hired to help realize/solve an issue that goes well beyond the skill level of the client. That professional relationship wasn't realized and it led to toxic team dynamics and management relationships.

1.0
20 Oct 2021

Terrible Company

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is nothing positive about working for this company. Frequently, they mislead employees and contractors when taking on unrealistic development projects. There is zero support from upper management.

Cons

There is zero management skills/support when running into issues. There is no project manager to assist with upset clients who are lied to about meeting timelines of projects. The company has really no idea what and who is responsible functional software development. Software is often flawed and there is no support when trying to problem solve serious issues. This in return makes an extremely toxic relationship with clients. Often times coworkers are pulled from one development project and placed on another project. There is no accountability from management when it comes to assisting with correcting software glitches. Clients become extremely upset as this often occurs, because they were lied to when contracts were originally signed. Failure of development projects routinely occur. Clients are lied to often times by upper management regarding timelines to correct issues. My advice to anyone interested in working here is to not apply. Company continues to take on software projects they no nothing about and will not work towards finding solutions. The major issue is the company has grown way to fast and really have no idea what they are doing. A lot of these development projects are still in the infancy stage. They are ultimately set up for failure due to the inability of upper management to take charge and oversee project solutions in a timely manner.

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