PasientSky Reviews

There is so much negative here that I'm not sure the text limit will suffice, will try to break it down by topic. Management: The top management takes unilateral decisions without considering the domain expertise of people working for them, one particular office head is notorious for hounding employees and treating them like school-children; popping up randomly behind you with demands to see what you're doing, and your code. There is no trust in employees, and they are not allowed to take ownership of their projects, or tech-stack, you are essentially an extension of the will of 2-3 leads who decide everything you work on. Obedience is the bible of this place, any inclination, to debate/question decisions is unacceptable. some managers are better and do their best to ameliorate this behaviour that comes from top-management, but its a roll of the dice. Work/life balance: Normally the company sticks to standard working hours, however, because the development style is fairly waterfall with big-feature-releases; Shortly before a release you might be asked to join what the company calls a "workshop", taking place in oslo (you'll be flown there if you're from a danish office). What it actually is, is an incredibly gruelling crunch-week, where people work from 8am to midnight (and in some cases up to 3am) only to wake up and do the same next day. you are not given overtime, or days off in lieu of this, as management maintains that the extra vacation weeks in your contract cover these -however, you are not allowed to take vacation when you want it, it is company assigned, so you can't even take your vacation days to recover. Compensation: Ostensibly a strong perk, 7 weeks of vacation are given instead of the standard 5. In the interview, I was told that it was 8-10 weeks, however, the contract only said 7. I cannot recall the reason I was given for that. but I believe I did receive 8 anyway. The major problem with the vacation scheme is that you are not allowed to choose vacation days, the company will collectively go on vacation together so you will be told "your summer vacation this year, is from x to x" and you can neither cancel it, or shift it, even by one week. That doesn't seem like a big problem in the beginning, however, they are completely inflexible on this, so consider weddings, holiday plans with family/friends...it becomes a nightmare. Tech culture: company claims to be agile, but works pretty waterfall, no product teams, rather a frontend team and a back-end team, throwing cards over the wall. big feature releases, top down decisions and grooming of tasks, and management has been known to change direction pretty abruptly in advanced stages of implementation. The QA team is the saving grace of this process; they are incredibly talented, thorough, and dedicated, if they have to make a rain dance and sacrifice 3 virgins to make sure your code is bug free, they will do it. The bottom line is, the company cares about the bottom line, they have expanded their product rapidly, and have created many great features, but at the price of their employees' well being and a having a good working culture. You will definitely learn a lot -there are some incredibly talented people there- but you will be ground to the bone, if you do some investigation you will find that their turn-over rate is insane. I am of course a former employee, and my opinion is biased by my experience at the company, but I encourage you to reach out on linkedIn to a few others, and the facts will speak for themselves.