small company with narrow minded management - Anonymous employee Empowered Employee Review

1.0
May 25, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

At least they have adopted some current software technologies. Free snacks, coffee and sodas, enough to get people fat.

Cons

This is a small company started with some friends and they only care about a few core people belonging to this family, and has no clue on how to manage and attract some talented people like software developers or BAs, rather than run the company like a school camp. The management team is very narrow minded and encourages micromanagement or control freaks, which drove away many talented people, but junior programmers. People come and go in short time, and there's only a few (besides the management or some core people) having stayed in the company for more than 3 years, which speaks for itself about this company. Any yet, they are self congratulating for their limited success in the market. The best advise is 'RUN', unless you only want to stay there for a few months until you find your next job.

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Pros

Working on a brand-new product, so it was almost all new development as opposed to maintenance and bug fixing other people's code. What I especially enjoyed was that as opposed to working on little things here and there without a chance to see the big picture (well, some of that too, but no more than normal), developers were given sizable features to work on and own. It was nice to be able to build features from start to finish. These features started with a tech doc/BRD so didn't have to do the requirements piece of it, and they had a good web team so I didn't have to worry about it making it pretty. Overall, one of my best jobs. It was nice to be treated as a professional, trusted to write meaningful code, and not micro-managed.

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