Great culture, some bad projects - Senior Software Engineer Made Tech Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review! Really good to hear that you enjoy working with the people at Made Tech and that you love the unlimited leave. I certainly take full advantage of this myself :) I appreciate your comment on public sector projects and that you found many projects that are not following best practices. I can see that this can be super frustrating for someone who learns all about modern practices at Made Tech and then is not always able to apply this right away. A major part of our mission is to help and influence the public sector teams we work with to use those modern practices and high quality code. This is a journey we often go on with our clients and there is a lot of work to do. When we arrive we want to spend time living through their challenges first and align ourselves to their ways of working so that we can really understand what works and what doesn't work. We're then much better placed to positively influence from within the team. As with anything, that can take time and we aim to have empathy with our clients that are on a journey rather than being ready to change how things are done as soon as we land. How long this takes varies in each organisation but in those projects where we do end up influencing the client, implementing modern practices, upskilling their civil servants and help improve the way things are done, we feel a real sense of achievement and purpose. Those are the best outcomes for us. Its really useful to hear this from someone in the team though and I wonder if we could do more to talk about this in showcases and our Friday afternoon learning sessions. If you want to be part of that conversation and help set something up feel free to reach out to me :) Thanks again for sharing! Yasemin