Gurtam Reviews

A decent team lead is a rare thing at Gurtam, let alone a good one Everything you can find in those 1-star reviews is also true: Nepotism Favoritism. This is how you make it to the managing position. And if the manager doesn't like you, you will be forced to leave at some point Poor management (thanks to the points above, too). The board of management does nothing, can't communicate properly and shows disrespect to the employees Micromanagement at the level which is hard to imagine until you see it No support from HR, all those mood meetings and satisfaction surveys are just paperwork. If you bring up any concern, it won't be solved. Instead, it will be communicated to your manager, and they will get offended and mistreat you later. Employees are forced to use poor internal tools, losing a lot of work time for arranging a new VPN configuration, a new password tool, etc. Poor benefits for those without a family. Health insurance they use is cheap, learning is covered partially even for group classes, NY gifts became low quality a few years ago. Workshops and excursions in the Vilnius office have up to 15-20 spaces, which fill in the blink of an eye considering 300 people in this location. English speaking clubs are free, which is a pro, but the level of the participants isn't aligned, resulting in people with B1 level attending C1 group. The only real bonus provided by the company was relocation from Belarus some years ago. And they really mention the parking lot at the office (limited as mentioned in other reviews) as a bonus If you're not a developer, you most probably will not get a raise Which leads us to one more concern: in most departments, there is no transparent mechanism of getting a raise or a promotion Company's management is fixed on using AI, but doesn't want to hire dedicated specialists. Instead, every department (including HR, Business development, etc) is forced to create an AI bot, no matter the quality, or need of it, or number of tokens used There is no company-wide policy for AI-generated code: some departments delegate it completely, while others are prohibited from using AI for code-writing Most teams have to attend the office 3 times per week, on specific days, no skipping. If you skip a day, you have to come extra later No flexibility for the working location, not suitable for digital nomads. If you want to change your location, then you have to leave the company Not enough resources are being dedicated to the product that brings most of the money (including new features development, tech debt and bug fixing) Dark office, lack of meeting rooms, closing curtains in your office space or meeting rooms is prohibited Extremely high bureaucracy level, not matching the company size High-end private events only for the management team The functions of certain teams and managers remain a mystery to the rest of the organization I could go on with this until dawn, just consider another company instead

No negatives. The only real risk is that with company paid lunches and a kitchen always full of food, you might leave with great memories… and a few extra kilos.