Hell on earth - IOS & Mac Developer FreedomPay Employee Review

1.0
Dec 19, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Work from home, nice office, good food

Cons

Good lord. I’ve never had a job in my field that was this awful. The team lead they hired for iOS is a heartless, terrible human being. Despite my having a few years of experience delivering quality solutions and good experiences with former supervisors, my FreedomPay team lead did everything in his power to suck the confidence out of me and make me think I couldn’t do the job HE hired me to do. Joke’s on him, I’m on to bigger and better things and every employer I’ve had since loves me. Anyhow, nothing I did as part of my job was ever good enough. I’d submit pull requests that, most of the time, satisfied the acceptance criteria I was given. Then during code review, my dear team lead would change the parameters/scope of the original task and make me tear it all apart and do the thing a new way. This would be fine if not for the fact that he’d gripe at me about how I wasn’t finishing things on time. See the problem here? I’ll never forgive him for making me turn down another job opportunity to take the job at FreedomPay so I could spend almost a year watching my health and weight deteriorate as I spent every waking hour working and trying to satisfy him to no avail. DO NOT entertain these people if they come trying to hire you for *anything* iOS/Mac-related, unless you like not doing anything but working for a ghoul who will never be satisfied and will whine about you to his boss the first chance he gets. A year and a half later I still scowl every time I see this company’s name anywhere. It seriously bothers me that somebody could do this to me with no consequences to them. I hope to never work for a company like FreedomPay ever again so long as I live.

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FreedomPay Response
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We appreciate the time taken to write this review, however, we do not agree with the majority of these comments. We strive as a company to provide an inclusive and great work environment, which does include the ability to work from home, modern workspaces, provided in office food and beverages, along with so much more! All of which are afforded to our IOS and development teams. The work we do is complex and innovative, at times this can lead to facing challenging problems that are ever evolving, but are addressed as a team with the support of your peers, leads, and management. In addition to the collaborative environment for tackling these challenging problems, we also maintain an open-door policy, mentoring programs, training programs and tools. We also maintain both confidential and anonymous reporting avenues for any behaviors or actions that do not align with our company policies, values, or culture. We understand this environment may not be sought after by everyone, but remain dedicated to being an inclusive, fast-paced, innovative tech company, surrounded by and developing talented employees. We remain dedicated to all of our employees, their well-being, and their job satisfaction. Even in the event where it is mutually determined by an employee and the company to go different directions, we continue to provide support and resources to aid in finding their next opportunity

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