Numbrs Reviews

Cons

but had some issues as all companies

Cons

restricted workplace area.
no other cons.

Cons

Sudden and frequent changes of direction from upper management
Not much flexibility in working hours
German is not the prettiest language on Earth

Cons

micromanagement
no leaders, just some wannabe bosses
no vision, no plan
kiss the right bottom and you'll get up there

ALL the 5* reviews are fake!!!

Cons

- lack of direction: the management doesn't really know what they are doing.
- bad decision-taking.
- broken company culture: values and mission of the company are completely outside of the reality and they are constantly remembered to the employees, it feels a bit like 1984.
- continuous promises to employees that never materialize.
- incompetent people in high positions.
- employees don't trust management, management doesn't trust employees.

Cons

Here is admittedly a very subjective summary of my experience and why it was a big mistake to join Centralway for me. I hope this will help somebody else to avoid loosing time at Centralway. So what will you find here?
 
You will be hired and pitched as an ultra A player but you will work as a faceless code monkey in a boring Scrum team just like at any other company too.
 
Centralway is not a technology company, but a small investment oriented startup run by a small group of suit-and-tie people, who never talk to anyone outside of their circle. As an engineer you will be a second rate employee who will be considered as easily replaceable at any time.
 
There is absolutely no room for any kind of a career growth. All heads and leads are usually hired from outside.
 
Expect to be managed by random young people without any notable engineering background and who have never proven anything in software engineering or in building of successful software products. They try their best, but they do not know anything better than you.
 
Expect to work on seemingly pointless and highly questionable ideas you will probably not care about.
 
You should prepare to work on the most technically undemanding stuff of your life in an environment constrained by a huge amount of processes and an army of stake holders. Expect to be unable to get even simple things done in days.
 
All decisions are strictly top-down. You will be never involved into any strategic or architectural decisions and you will be not expected to ask about the "why" but to do whatever you were told to do.
 
You should accept that "truth" and "facts" is not what you hear and see, but what you were told. The company communicates things to the public, which some colleagues consider as blatant lies.
 
You may be surrounded by unhappy and frustrated colleagues, which causes a lot of unpleasant frictions.
 
If you ever decide to leave, the last thing you should expect is that the company will fight for you to stay. Remember, as an engineer you are a disposable resource here.

Cons

I can only advise you to stay away - lots of promises, but reality looks very different.
Employee fluctuation is very high. Hire and fire mentality. A colleague was fired on his 2nd day at the firm (why did they even hire him - lack of long-term planning).
Product and company are in a very bad state at the moment. The reason for this is that nobody uses the product.
Use your skills to work for another tech company.

Cons

The management:
- They are inexperienced and no clue how to manage a software development team. - They change their mind on a daily basis, there is no long term plan at all.
- No job safety, you never know when they decide to release half of the development team or fire any other employee.

Cons

So many...
- Zero stability (mass dismissal recently - google it)
- Zero transparency (plus some brainwashing attempts - once per week)
- No work/life balance
- If you work in Zurich office, you are not allowed to sporadicaly work remote, or get non paid leaves, or work less than 100%.
- No solid business model
- No clear goals
- Super micromanagement

Cons

- I have the feeling that the management don't really know what to do with the product and how to continue with it, they seem to be more focused on making everything pretty so investors keep giving money rather thank making the product successful. What about coming down to the real world, ask people and do some testing?
- Continuous mindset changes, probably because of what I said in the previous point.
- Fear of failing. Or better said, fear of taking a new feature to a showcase to the founder and being told that what you have built is ugly, useless and stupid. And the worst is that it might be true, but because even the smallest thing is micromanaged by them.
- Quality of the perks has been reduced after the "cost reduction". Having sweets and no fruits is a really bad idea, reducing the breakfast is equally bad.
- No career development: the company doesn't pay any trainings and they don't support people who want to assist to conferences.
- Not even sporadical home office. For a company full of expats, this is a symptom of low consideration towards the employees.
- The values and their continuous presence everywhere like in a dictatorship.
- The reflections on the displays.