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      One Beyond

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      One Beyond Reviews

      3.4

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (105 total reviews)
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      Dave Gardner

      68% approve of CEO

      40% positive business outlook

      One Beyond has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 105 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The One Beyond 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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      105 reviews
      1.0
      5 Aug 2017

      Terrible place avoid if you have alternatives

      Senior software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      There isn't any except if you count having a job that pays a salary as a Pro.

      Cons

      1) High employee turnaround, you will get sacked on the first chance if there isn't a project for you to work on. Developers are seen as expendable in this company. 2) New developers get 0 hours of training yet they expect them to be productive from day 1. 3) Probation period is 6 months and it usually gets extended without any performance evaluation and feedback about your progress in the meantime. 4) Product managers are called "Architects" in this company and most of them haven't wrote a line of code from 2008 yet are making estimations without consulting with the dev team. 5) All projects start from the same template which by an architectural standpoint is terrible and the codebase is a mess. No one tries to write good code, they just rush into completing their tasks as there is no time to write good code and no one will appreciate it. 6) Working from home is frowned upon. 7) Be careful not to get sick very often as the Managing director will start sending his comical emails again urging you to rethink before taking a sick day. 8) Unfriendly people and the Managing director is one of the most obnoxious people i have met.

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      One Beyond Response
      8y
      On behalf of DCSL Software, thank you for the comments. However we disagree with each and every point made as they do not match reality.
      3.0
      10 Oct 2022

      Don't expect too much

      Mid-level software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      There are some very nice person who are always there to help. Remote first company, so limited travel cost and you almost always able to manage your private stuff during the day. Dedicated training time (4 hours every second Tuesday) with full PluralSight access.

      Cons

      Nick the CEO is an extremely narcissistic person. He starts every company meeting with a repetitive speech mostly about him and his fantastic visions. It doesn't sound that bad, but you'll see after 1-2 years. Oh, and if you missed the speech you will get it in pdf via email too, just in case you interested... The company meetings are boring (except the meet the team part). We used to have future project section, but we do not have in the last couple of months. It matters as the company barely has enough projects for every developers. The point above leads to the biggest problem: There is not enough project to everyone, so the company let the good developers to go. In the phrase "good developers" I mean: the developers who have ambitions and are able to find better place to work. So you need to work with a lot developers who couldn't leave... Obviously there are brilliant people like Andrii and Dennis (technical architects), but they are always extremely busy. The HR person who is going to reply these critics will say: Nick is nice person and he tell us all the exciting news what we are experiencing. Why is he not talking about the real excitements? When the whole QA team in Romania (OK, only the 90% of it) left the company and the developers had to do the QA work? Probably the 20% of the company meeting time wasn't enough to him... Also, HR will say we have fantastic projects in the line. Unfortunately, this is not true. Lots of people doing nothing in the last couple of weeks and this waiting time is not limited to the summer only. The very fantastic idea that we are transparent and honest leads to the fact: filling the time sheet is the most important thing in a developer life! Nick just announced that they will create a new company policy that everyone have to fill their time sheet every day. How funny is that: the winning team on the Summer Summit in Spain has developed a feature what you can use to fill your time sheet with one click! Obviously we cannot use it as it would highlight the fact: everyone hates filling time sheet and none of us want to spend time to do it. The time sheet is very important because the client can see it and we are using it to bill our work, but if the project runs out of money for some reason (and believe me it is quite often happens) you are not allowed to do ANY work on that project anymore. So 3-4 developers are sitting & doing nothing and fill the time sheet with "training time". As soon as the client agreed to pay more (and they will eventually as they spent a lot money to the half finished software) they are going back to work racing with the time to finish the project again. If you have experienced something like this before it is easy to see how stressful and bad this approach is.

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      One Beyond Response
      3y
      Thank you for taking the time review One Beyond. It is great to read that your interactions with your peers is good and helpful – this is the environment we have been creating since the very beginning and it is wonderful to see that it is still flourishing. It is also heartening to hear that our remote first approach is enabling you to get a good work-life balance, and our focus on personal development is well-received. It is disappointing to see the personal comments regarding Nick, our CEO. Everybody is entitled to an opinion from a professional perspective, but we feel these comments related to his personality are not necessary. It is important for the CEO of a business to be present and to communicate openly with the whole company. As you know, being an active employee, we anonymously survey the whole company after each monthly meeting, and the feedback is overwhelmingly positive in relation to the CEO update section – we realise not everybody likes the same thing, but the majority of the company enjoys the CEO update. Relating to projects, we have a fantastic and growing sales function that are working hard every day to bring in new and exciting projects. In any business there are ebbs and flows where people will feel they have either slightly too much or too little work at any given time. This is very rare for us at One Beyond. You are right to highlight the fantastic job done by the winning team at the hackathon, and we are still working away in the background to try to get this implemented – watch this space! It is in everybody’s interest to simplify the timesheeting process, and we will always look for ways to improve in all aspects of the company.
      1.0
      9 May 2020

      Outdated view. Small company mindset in a medium size company.

      Technical architect
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Leaving work at the end of the day.

      Cons

      Having to go back on the next day. Or dealing with Senior management. The project/resource managers are clueless and need to know all the time what everyone is doing. The development framework is a bug on its own. Just useless.

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      One Beyond Response
      6y
      Thank you for your review, and we are sad to see that it is so negative. We have our Project Management team to ensure that we are delivering the best possible service to our clients and keeping in regular contact with them, leaving our Development Teams free to do what they love and what they do best. The more the Project Management team can learn upfront, the less impact they will have on the Development Teams – this may explain why you have the view they ‘need to know’ what people are doing? If you have suggestions on how we can approach this better, please feel free to let us know through the anonymous suggestion box that all employees have access to. As always, we will consider it and will feed back our views. Our development framework is a result of many years of refinement, with design and input from our Developers and Technical Architects. Again, please feedback the issues through the anonymous suggestion box so we can understand what this “bug” is, to which you refer. With reference to the piano-playing – this has been done by the CEO in response to the current Covid-19 Pandemic as a way to try to lift people’s spirits in these difficult times. He has sacrificed many hours of his own time for the benefit of others. I believe most people have appreciated this and enjoy it for what it is there for. If you personally do not enjoy this, then we do have all of the other social events that you can take your pick from.
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