DrFirst reviews

I've been a developer at 10 companies in just as many years and I can say with a clear conscience that DrFirst is one of the best employers I've ever worked for. I'm not doing this for money, nor am I a secret recruiter trying to sucker people into interviews for this company. I'm writing this review because when I was interviewing a year ago, I was turned off by the disparaging comments to a point I didn't even want the job. This continued into low expectations upon joining the company. Alas, my experience since then has been consistently positive. I'll just highlight a couple things: - environment is lax but not boring. there's work to do but reasonable deadlines. - processes are constantly changing for the better. - really great recent hires (at the management level) changing company culture for the better. - top-tier veteran developers who are great at teaching. - small teams and capable members who aren't afraid to step up. - growing company with funding = room for personal growth without killing yourself. It's probably hard to fathom why someone would write all of this without having an incentive. There's no incentive. Chalk it up to appreciation for the way that I was treated by the company. This was a good place for me.

Individual products within DrFirst are run like independent businesses. This gives those products a great deal of freedom to find processes and approaches that work for them. I have mostly been involved with the Backline product which is a great product and has a great team of people who are great in their roles. Work life balance is great and respected generally. The benefits and salary are above other places. Some of the people are really fun to work with. They give out more swag than any other company I've work for and have frequent celebrations to reward good work.