HelloWorld Reviews

Pros

HelloWorld was an amazing place to work. It was my first proper engineering job, and it was an incredible experience.

A developer's first program in any language typically prints HelloWorld, and I honestly can't think of a better place to have started my engineering career proper, than here.

Onboarding was smooth, within a month I felt like I had known everyone on the team for a bit. The work was fun, and challenging, and the open floor plan made everyone appear very approachable. The best part is people were actually very approachable, and I still maintain contact with quite a few of them.

I especially liked the communication between my manager and our team as it helped set expectations for software delivery. Sure we had some crunch deadlines, but it was nothing we didn't discuss as a team and agree too.

This open and transparent communication made it easy to ramp up and contribute quickly. When I think back on it, I gained responsibility with time, but it never once felt undue or burdensome; it all happened rather naturally.

By far the biggest pro, the people and culture. Honestly. Everyone was just really cool. Being a marketing company, I happened to like to go by the creative team quite a bit as it's really nice to see the stuff they make. As a plus, they happen to really like talking about their work and it makes for a great listen IMO.

There's also a pretty nice game room to unwind in if you need a breather, and jigsaw puzzles if you want them.

Advice to Management

Don't change the culture, by far the biggest thing I miss. Just great, great people.

Pros

- Incredibly supportive, open, sharing and collaborative culture
- Brilliant, hardworking individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds
- Humble leadership, who actually know/remember who you are
- Genuinely interested in developing the team as professionals and people

Pros

Work life balance and the culture

Pros

Such a well-oiled machine serving the best brands. They take training and on-boarding very seriously and provide you a buddy when you start to help you. Everyone is great and the work life balance is amazing.

Pros

PTO, WFH, Summer Fridays a plus!

Pros

HelloWorld has a friendly culture, nice offices, and flexible work environment. The work is, for the most part, interesting.

I feel like they make a real effort to motivate through positivity.

I also like the size of the company - it's small enough so that you can always find the right person to talk to on an issue, but big enough that the scale of work is complex, enjoyable, and challenging.

Advice to Management

I really like the way this company works. I can't really think of any specific advice.

Pros

The people are great, very loyal and happy. good flexible hours and good PTO/holidays. the company is solid and the business is plenty. lots of good work.

Advice to Management

Listen to your Engineers, promote those that deserve the promotion and give them the opportunity to prove themselves. going over 5 years without a promotion is detrimental to an employees state of mind and just doesn't show respect for them, specially after multiple empty promises of said promotion.

all that being said, I loved this company, and would come back if there was an opportunity to do so.

Pros

Flexible, great culture and coworkers

Pros

There's great work-life balance. You can take as many PTO days as you need and work from home when need be. The employees are pretty friendly (for the most part) and you work with larger clients like Kraft or Starbucks! Another thing I liked about working at Hello World was the agile methodologies they used when building their projects. While there were sometimes miscommunications, implementing agile in our daily work routine allowed us to build our projects efficiently and stay on the same page as a team.

Advice to Management

My advice to management would be to take the feedback from the employees more seriously. A number of people have complained about similar things that were never solved. Another thing would be to pay closer attention to the employees, there's a whole lot of undercover unprofessionalism.

Pros

Great people to work with
A lot of clients to work with - makes the work different for each client
Good culture in the beginning (see Cons why only in beginning)
Location was ok
Agency Agile changed how work was done, for the better (and great teamwork)

Advice to Management

Give better raises
Create different career paths. Not everyone is a good manager, but they are great leading technically