Long journey down a dead end road - Senior Software Engineer Dispel Employee Review

2.0
May 24, 2023
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Pros

Pay cheques consistently arrived on time.

Cons

Nepotism. Management actively blocking career paths. Lack of career advancement. Cagey/secretive business side that rarely shares basic financial data points on health of company. Deplorable communication skills. No care for the well-being and morale of the folks doing the work of building the services. Lack of skills to remedy interpersonal conflicts. Classic top-down management disguised as a "flat hierarchy". "Invisible leadership".

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5.0
Sep 17, 2023
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Pros

1. People care about one another and take time out of their day to help you 2. You will learn a LOT working here 3. Adding on to item 2, your professional skills will grow rapidly

Cons

1. Sometimes, hours get long on a stressful week 2. Fast-paced, which isn't for everyone 3. You will be put in a lot of high-stress situations that involve quick thinking and confident action to resolve

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1.0
Jul 10, 2026
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Pros

I am no longer employed

Cons

Kings of the failed practice of bringing a completely irrelevant and way to lenghty canned slide deck. How to tell the customer you are not their trusted advisor and you have no relevant value to add off the jump. Intelligent companies started moving away from these practices decades ago. One of the founders regularly circulated a documemt that was meant to be something akin to 'best practices', but instead it was labeled 'phrases that will get you fired'; and in the grand scheme of things, somehow, was not that bad compared to other instances. From GTM strategy, to pricing, to what even is our purpose, the company made a kids soccer game appear highly sophisticated. They laid off the entire sales team, and we got unemployment just to show how out of whack this place really is. Most companies, even when they are shady, are still competent enough to document something, even if cobbled up out of thin air.

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