Healthy Engineering Culture, Smart and Conscientious Colleagues - Full Stack Software Engineer AllClear ID Employee Review

4.0
Mar 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Genuinely friendly, helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who actually care about properly building and testing a functioning, secure, high-quality, useful product. I mention this because it's absurdly difficult to find a tech company that wants to create durable software or follow best practices. We don't get everything right, but suggestions for improvement are actively solicited, and I have never been reprimanded for submitting a bug fix, mentioning tech debt in a planning/refinement/grooming meeting, or filing an improvement story. Yes, there are software companies that will reprimand you for noticing that improvement is possible! AllClear ID is different. Most people here have read the Google SRE book, or at least some chapters from it, or they independently follow conversations in the software community about best practices regarding design, architecture, CI/CD, alerting & monitoring, performance testing, you name it. It's really cool to work in a place where you can improve the codebase openly, with support, encouragement, and resources, rather than in fear and in secret.

Cons

The company is small right now. On the CrossChannel side, we have fewer than 10 engineers, only 2 product owners, and only 1 project manager. There is an ambitious roadmap ahead and a deep backlog. If you join the team, you may be asked to take on non-engineering roles and tasks such as running client meetings, demo-ing to prospects, technical writing, making wireframes, and designing user experiences. It's a great environment for learning new skills quickly and stretching yourself, but if you're just not in a place right now where you can sink in that extra time and energy, then this will not be a good fit for you. And that is totally okay! Do come work with us when you're ready, though! :)

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5.0
Mar 14, 2024
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Pros

Great leadership! Great place to learn new skills and advance in your career.

Cons

Documentation is poor. Too much tribal knowledge but they are improving.

4.0
Mar 10, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- The company feels essentially like a new company (startup-like) but with existing money in the bank to fund growth of the refined vision and new product. - Good for career growth and plenty of opportunities to pick up new skills and responsibilities. For me, personally, this has been a good place to grow leadership skills. - Interesting and exciting product (CrossChannel™ Platform is the one I work on) and SaaS development - The cloud engineering teams utilize modern technologies and practices like Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, monorepos, Python, Java, etc. - Development is not hindered by slow release cycles. We utilize a form of Scrumban as our product development methodology. - Intelligent, fun, and pleasant co-workers - CEO is attentive when you talk to him, regardless of your role. This was a drastic change from my time at IBM where even my director was less attentive than AllClear's CEO. - Flexibility with work/life balance - Travel opportunities, especially to the other office in Oslo, Norway - Pay is competitive - Nice office

Cons

- In the current stage of the company, you will need to wear multiple hats, which can be a con for some. - It took longer than I think it should have to re-focus the company into the current direction and product, but as of now it's going in the right direction and trend. - Need to be comfortable with the risks and unknowns of a company/startup with a runway - Sales team is in very early stages

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