Pros
- Since the median age is around 25, you can get along with everyone - If you are lucky, you cand find people that can really teach you QA and work ethics - Decent coffee but no milk - Sometimes, you get rewarded with a pizza
Cons
- The management is made up from toxic people that are way in over their head, with very few exceptions - You will be bullied in doing what they tell you to do - You are told that the schedule is flexible but it is only flexible if you want to come from 6 am to 14 pm, 14 pm to 11 pm, or 6pm and 3 am. - The management pushes constantly for a bug quota even if that bug quota is unfeasible - Be prepared to work in quantity assurance as you will have to cover for the missing testers, as the company sells more people that they have - There is always some high school drama going on inside the company, either between the testers, or between the production and the management teams - The CEO really loves to tell stories without an actual purpose, either about how some client is the beautiful girl that we have and no one else can or about how he is some shogun that is betrayed by his underlings - The collective thinking is something along the lines of "you are punished as a team and rewarded individually" - Pay raises are a joke, they do not even cover the inflation rate - The evaluations are also a joke as it does not matter how good you are, you will either be told that there are no places for you to be promoted or that you have "grievances" or are "too negative" when you start pointing things out and give suggestions on how to improve - The pay is a joke, you start at 1450RON/month (295EUR) and after 2 year you can reach 2200RON/Month (447 EUR) if you are lucky. This applies for the tester role. - If you become a lead, you will have to fight tooth and nails for your right to go on a vacation (if bull hits the fan you will need to be available), to take a sick day, to have enough people to do what the client needs, to take control of your project from the sales department (because they think that they should have control over a project) - Oh, and be prepared to hear about how some of the former best people in the company are evil just because they left - And be prepared to leave ASAP because once an exodus occurs, and all of the qualified people in the company leave, you will have to work 3x as much as before to cover for the loses.