iTechArt Reviews

4.1

75% would recommend to a friend

(355 total reviews)

Sergei Kovalenko

85% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

iTechArt has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 355 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The iTechArt 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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355 reviews
3.0
18 Apr 2023

I would not recommend to work here longer than 1-2 years

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Maybe I was lucky, but I have not met toxic people in 5+ years of working in this company. All the colleagues I worked with were great guys. As far as I know, this company does not install spyware on work devices to monitor what employees are doing. A request for a salary increase can be submitted at any time, not once a year, as in many other companies. Compensation for laying off is decent. I can't complain. (if this can be considered a plus)

Cons

Here you can find all the things of a regular outsourcing company. The company sells juniors as seniors. Managers edit employee resumes to make them look more experienced before the interview with the customers. As long as the client is satisfied with your work, this company does not seem to exist. No one is interested in how you are doing, whether you have any problems, and whether everything is okay with you. You will see your manager once a year. I have complained about this many times, but apparently, no one cares. No one is really interested in your ambitions, and career growth. If you work here for 10 years, you will remain a middle or at most a senior employee. There are no annual bonuses in this company. There is no internal learning system. You'll get shared credentials to the Udemy account. Do you want a Macbook for work? They will give you a Mac mini and two monitors so that you can travel with this box from home to the office. Now for me, this company looks like a kind of "swamp" for career growth, and personal, and skill development. Honestly, I regret that I worked here for so long and didn't find a new company with a clear career path after a couple of years. Now they are laying off hundreds of professionals because they just can't find projects for them.

1.0
11 May 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I witnessed the formation of truly talented guys in different departments. The people I worked with on various projects are just wonderful and diligent, which I can not say about many managers because I have heard a lot of stories and experienced a lot myself.

Cons

As mentioned before me - the company is absolutely not good at long-term planning, although they boastfully talk about their "quick" response to situations. For a whole year after February 2022, the company inflated a giant bench of beginners (considering that at that time a lot of people were sitting without projects) without learning from their EXACTLY SAME failure in 2020. Those who write that the "company" is stable - this is not so, and most likely it is written by the manager themselves. The second giant minus is that the company has absolutely no concept of the "values of employees" who have been working for them for years. At the slightest crisis, employees go to waste and leave on unfair terms, after which the company again hires too many people - this is their business model and for them people are just consumables, because you can hire new juniors. Dismissing beautifully is not about the company, it can be thrown out into the street with a weekly notice, pressing on the unexpectedness of the notice and ignorance of the laws of the labor code, people who have given years to the company are fired on terrible conditions. And the last thing - your position in the company depends entirely on the adequacy of the manager, who is not much in the company. Most departments are a total mess, some managers only pretend to work while actually doing nothing (some don't even have projects..). Also, be prepared that the company has managers who have been working for a very long time and have already "grown into the company" while being cut off from the current reality for 10+ years already (QA dep. as one of the good examples). The company hopes that the name change will solve all these problems, but this is not the case.

2.0
16 Jan 2023

Average place to work

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Pros

First of all, iTechArt is an outstanding educational contributor that runs a lot of external workshops and courses. The company is a great entry point to the Software Engineer career path. Another good thing to be mentioned, engineers are mostly free to perform both as technology-specific developers (Java Developer, React.js Developer i.e.) or as Software Engineers in general. It’s a good place to onboard new technologies to your stack.

Cons

To be “fast-growing”, the company uses an aggressive growth strategy. As a result, any non-positive global market change triggers silent lay-offs. Every lay-off is followed by a hiring wave, but every time company loses already onboarded and experienced workers, and instead of them hires new ones. iTechArt is concentrated on profit via “horizontal scaling”. The only available career development direction inside the company is a management one. The company’s technical expertise depends on hiring and individual employees’ activities. The company poorly invests in technical growth strategically. It only adapts to market changes after something happened, and never tries to predict.

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