Excellent Employer - Software Developer Baker Technology Employee Review

I was a contractor at Baker Technology and I really enjoyed it. They are a small and friendly gem of a consultancy. The projects I worked on were interesting and challenging. The people in the team were both highly skilled and fun to work with, and I was consistently amazed at how much we got done. The whole environment was optimised for delivering projects quickly. There was absolutely zero office politics and no admin to get in the way. The directors are techies at heart, and they value their development teams' productivity. They always worked hard to make sure that everything ran smoothly. I am proud of the work I did at Baker Technology and would have no hesitation recommending them to friends who were looking for their next contract.

I genuinely can't think of much to put in the cons section. The kitchen area was a bit basic I suppose, but the office is right in the middle of the City anyway, so it was no hardship to go outside for lunch or coffee!

If you want to earn a very respectable day-rate, and do very little for your effort, you've come to the right place. The bar is VERY low here, the front-end knowledge of pretty much everyone I interacted with was junior/entry level at best. You can be a very mediocre developer & look like a god here, so if you like your ego stroked by ageing yet very junior technical people, look no further.

A huge lack of knowledge with modern Javascript/Front-end development practises. Most of the developers here are re-purposed, single-finger typing C# 'developers' who couldn't answer even basic entry-level Javascript interview questions. Nobody knew how scope worked. The vast majority of 'complex' work that goes on here is over-engineering, because people are so inexperienced with Javascript/Typescript/SPA framework of choice. Their Git knowledge was also abysmal. Nobody could use git in a terminal, only sourcetree. Nobody knew how to rebase a branch properly or handle conflicts. There was only one other developer I met that had any experience with the features of ES6, and nobody knew how to write or structure even basic CSS (no knowledge of pre-processors like LESS or SCSS).