KBC Reviews

This is a very slow environment where nobody wants to take responsibility. A lot of communication are pretty much done by face-to-face talking so no audit trail like email will be kept. The company is full of politics. It really takes time to be prepared carefully otherwise any mistake will be used to against you. The company kept downsizing in the last couple years. The pay is not competitive and bonus is very low. If you have desire to be outstanding, this place is not for you.

For the Touch project: Code reviews are used for hammer down anyone the reviewer doesn't like. If the reviewer wants to hurt your career, he just has to write 400 comments in your pull request and make it so that it takes 10x longer for you to deliver. Drive-by comments on reviews are common. Specially coming from the God developers that look down on the rest. God developers are a couple of developers that have been there since the beginning of the project and have gathered so much political clout that they might as well be the owners of the company. Everything is super hierarchical. They even have documents on confluence describing the development structure as an army; With soldiers at the bottom, lieutenants, generals, etc, Career progression is almost non existent unless you play the political game. The usual progression is developer->functional analyst->manager. The only opinion that matters is that of the God Developers. A lot of them are part of the Core Team. You will be just a cog in a very dumb machine. No innovation going on at all. The work is brain-dead boring. Leaving the project Touch, to do something else is considered some sort of promotion. That's sad.