OpenBet Reviews

Pros

Sydney team was full of fun people to work with. Good work culture (PS4 and table tennis in the office). Free fruit, biscuits, etc. Transition from waterfall to agile was painful but things had pretty much settled when I left in 2015. Management and clients were supportive and sufficiently involved in agile processes. Flexible working hours. Typically 7.5 hour days and no weekends (unless there was extra work and...

Cons

Antiquated tech stack (TCL was by and large the main language used). Salary was lacklustre. I've heard both of these have improved since I left but not sure how much.

Advice to Management

Keep replacing your legacy systems with something engineers will actually want to use and benefit learning.

Pros

- friendly colleagues - small teams of mostly good devs - office in nice area - opportunity to write important, high-use code

Cons

- the teams are completely focussed on getting software out the door as soon as possible with little thought to architecture and new technologies - 80% of development is in outdated languages

Advice to Management

Management should ask low level employees where the obvious opportunities to improve the stack are.

Pros

- Nice people (most) - Relaxed atmosphere

Cons

- Stuck in 90's technologies and no technology direction - No long term strategy - do whatever you can now to earn a bit of money attitude - Trying to re-invent the wheel (badly). Examples: new web framework based on tcl, attempt to port OO features to tcl with homegrown solutions

Advice to Management

- Invest in new technology - Have long term goals - Enough buzzwords and BS

Pros

I joined the company more than 5 years ago and looking back it was a great place to start. Great people, good culture nice benefits and opportunities to work abroad.

Cons

Their technologies are outdated and won't help you find your next job. The direction the company is moving towards looks pretty grim. Loads of buzzwords coming from new senior hires but all I see is loads of old code with not tests, and the first attempt to modernise the company and bring in "products" failed, mostly due to the lack of tests documenting existing functionality. No new customers for a while now as initial...

Advice to Management

Give better pay rises to keep existing employees. Convince stakeholders that we need to take a hit to get our code base in a better condition. Modernising the code base will be extremely hard because it is a long term investment with no short term returns and now that the company is owned by investors who want immediate results the company is facing a critical moment.

Pros

People culture, offices, international exposure

Cons

Complex organization, minimum understanding of decision making process, limited documentation

Pros

- Great multicultural colleagues - Great working conditions - Good Benefits

Cons

- Outdated technologies and methodologies - Tasks set from external "customer" companies could end up being dull - Strict hierarchy could block new members from being involved in more interesting tasks

Pros

Great vacation package. 3rd year reaches 6 weeks.

Cons

Try to get the highest salary because after that, there won't be much raise

Advice to Management

Make salary raises more competitive, otherwise employees will keep on leaving

Pros

- Very friendly collaborative environment - Very good work/life balance

Cons

- Not good people's management - Medium to low salaries - Outdated technologies