- Do not expect to grow, or evolve as a developer there. Travelfusion company is about two, three, maybe four developers who have been with the company since its early days. Everybody else is considered errand boy/girl, just making small bug fixes, nothing worth considering.
- There is no subscription for any online learning platform, nobody cares to enrich/expand employee knowledge. No surprise there, you are even discouraged from creating classes, the mentality is way too restrictive.
- The vast majority of managers (sales or project managers especially) are non technical and therefore clueless, most of the times you are given a task and then frequently asked when they can expect delivery. They can't help you with much or offer any directions really.
- Too much micro-management
- Greek Offices are below average standards. Broken windows, the old aluminum window cases would not seal properly. There is no central heating, we were always cold during the winter, and the place is overall an energy efficiency nightmare.
There is only one toilet for an office of 20 developers. Ladies do not have their own bathroom, and we had to push to get the offices cleaned more than once per week.
The office equipment is below standards as well. Dual core PCs using just 4GB of RAM in the 2020s were barely enough to browse the web, let alone handle any serious code development. So you have to use a remote machine ... in London ... hence that terrible lag every time you type somethinng, hampering any effort to write code.
- Code written from the developers in London is usually well written (sometimes exceptionally written), properly reviewed and commented. But most of the times, you will be asked to dive in code written in China, which is a pretty much independent team that does not share the same views when it comes to separation of concerns. Most of the times, the developer that writes the code, does the review as well. As a result, there lies some of the most HORRIFIC code you will ever see in your carreer. You will need all the patience and luck in the world to find what the code actually does (inefficiently) and try to fix the problem inside some 800 line monolithic method. 99% of 'template' code needs a complete overhaul just to become maintainable again.
- HR is completely clueless, especially when it comes to matters of the Greek office, they don't know anything most of the times. If you ever get another job offer, whatever you do, don't get yourself in a discussion with them to stay. No matter what the HR will say, they won't deliver.
- Along with being a developer, you are expected to be the IT guy, the HR, the office maintenance guy and anything else that may come up. To be fair, you won't have these problems in London though, there's a systems team over there.