Disbanded whole QA (Ukraine) team in 1 day without even notifying - Head QA Alchemy Employee Review

1.0
Mar 15, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Pros? What Pros? This company does not deserve even a word about pros.

Cons

As you all know Ukraine is at war now. All people here are in such conditions that none of you can imagine such a thing, none. Despite this, the company in which these guys worked in a frantic mode for a year long and some of them for two even, and with overtimes for which most often no one paid. The Alchemy company and Timothy Li made a “very difficult” decision to disband the entire QA (UA) team just in a day, without any warning and notice period and even simple “thank you for your service guys”. Everyone just got the message that “your account has been deactivated”. The fun thing that I was on a meeting with the client when the account was deactivated and it kicked me out 😆. True “support” of Ukrainians 🤣🤝 So think twice before going to work for this company or getting services from them - with a high probability this work will be done by incompetent people who happened to be in this company by accident and will soon be fired in a day like our #ukraine team. Just to mention though there are still good specialists and people exist (not much, unfortunately) but seems like to me it’s not for long. Now people, in addition to the terrible stress from the war in Ukraine and the horror that russia brought to our land, also received additional stress from the Alchemy company. We can say that it is almost a Russian business partner - it helps to demoralize the Ukrainian people and destroy the country's economy even faster 🤝🤝 Fake support for #ukraine and its employees is just about Alchemy 🤝🇺🇦 And the reason behind that it’s not that team is bad and not doing their work, it’s because Tim wants to have more profit from the business and pay less salary. You may notice that I didn’t mention “saving the same software deliverables quality”, because there won't be same quality😉 That’s why Alchemy got a partnership with Theecode Technologies Pvt Ltd. (have no questions to this company) PS: I didn’t care (and still don’t) about myself and the fact that I would be fired (even thought at first they fired me exclusively because I was a manager) and I was absolutely ok with this. But as it turned out, they fired according to this approach everyone.. REMEMBER: great managers are the people who CARE FIRST about THEIR people, THEIR team, and only after about themselves. So this post is dedicated to my team and showing my support to them. Before this day Timothy Li was my inspiration and example of great CEO and leader, I was mistaken. Now, I see the true nature of this person.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Decent pay and experience working with some amazing senior developers.

Cons

You could honestly write an amazon prime show on Tim the CEO's shenanigans. Here is what the repeating 6 month cycle at Alchemy looks like. 1. CEO Tim makes many lofty promises to customer. 2. Tim then doesn't put enough developers on the project and expects us to just re-use ancient Frankenstein code that barely works in the first place, even if the customer asked for a completely new product. 3. Customer then asks for more features which Tim promises to have those and even more, instead of pushing back on the customer. Then he turns the customers on the developers when the project and the new features aren't magically done immediately. This causes rushed work which causes more problems and more time. 4. Repeat step 3 for 3-8 months after the project deadline. 4A. sometime in steps 2-5 the CEO will hire 10-40 employees around the world and then fire them around 6 months after. 4B. Developers and QA will be rushed and harassed while constantly feeling/knowing their job is on the line. 5. After firing many of the developers, losing a customer or two, and finishing a project or two things may calm down enough to start back at step 1. There is so much more to go into that can't be written in one place. For example, Tim firing all 20 Ukrainian employees a few weeks into the Russian - Ukrainian war, even though some of them were still working after being relocated. This is after spending two weeks advertising how much of a philanthropist hero he was for getting others to donate to them. You could say that it's unfair to pin all these problems on one mane, but there's no one else to blame since he fired the other upper management and the rest quit.

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