codebase is an utter disaster - Anonymous employee Tripadvisor Employee Review

1.0
Jul 26, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

good compensation. free lunches. lots of young, beautiful people working there

Cons

codebase is a complete mess. take one example: a fellow developer had made some code modifications to the point where a variable had the exact opposite meaning of the variable's name. but nobody dared to try to change the name of the variable for fear of what might break. people work very long hours, weekends, etc. i witnessed many incidents of bosses being downright mean and nasty to their employees, including yelling and demeaning comments. you will be spending most of your time fixing bugs.

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Cons

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