Silicon Valley from the outside, North Korea from the inside - Software Engineer Nearform Employee Review

2.0
Nov 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- High quality of work - Lots of open source contribution opportunities - Ability to work with some big names - They heavily invest in the annual party which is awesome. - Really positive CEO & President that exuberates leadership

Cons

- Long working hours (9 - 6) - If you struggle to meet the high bar they set, you fired in a day or two with zero support - Toxic management culture with way too much boss whip cracking - Made to feel bad for not taking training, or holiday due to endlessly stressful busy projects to contribute to - The progression path was confusing for engineers - Sometimes being fully remote can be quite lonely, I wanted more ability to meet other engineers more often than once per year - QA felt like it was an afterthought - As an engineer, felt like a cog in a large corporate machine that was aggressively growing due to investment - Sometimes you just have to do what client want even if not good code - Forced to use personal holiday to cover company shutting doors for Xmas break else would have unpaid leave - we just got out of Covid was last year 2020, I want to relax without reducing my holiday!

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5.0
Feb 6, 2024
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Pros

Work life balance Many projects available Open source community

Cons

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2.0
Mar 7, 2025
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Pros

- Some great clients, if you're staffed on a good one it's worth it - Solid benefits - Great coworkers - Good work/life balance

Cons

- Instability and lots of weird decisions being made (layoffs, increase in offshore hiring, personnel churn, inscrutable changes to bonus plan) likely driven by investor demands on profitability - Communication from leadership is tonedeaf and not transparent - Corporate, somewhat awkward company culture - No diversity in the leadership team

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