Always a case of "it will get better soon" ... it never does - Anonymous employee VizExplorer Employee Review

2.0
Nov 14, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people (non-managers, mostly). Good mix of culture. Interesting work, that has ore and more interesting things happening. Good friends. They try hard with monthly socials and other events. HR team are great though.

Cons

Not a proper agile or scrum company. Think they do it well, they don't and stubborn and egotistical managers will argue otherwise. Their way or the high way. Constantly changing and mixed priorities, people across multiple sprints, hero culture, working all hours for little recognition, no room for innovation, crazy deadlines, abuse of the product owner role (there really isn't one at all), wasted time in meetings, meetings never start to or run on time, respect of people and their time from management is abysmal, micromanagement, clear favourites, bad code, no code reviews, time pressured, teams aren't cross functional, need WAY more testers, releases happen without being tested properly, constant want to make jira work in a reporting way but won't concede to pay more for upgrades / plug ins or accept that the way of working is the problem - not jira, sprints are rarely planned properly or run to time, demos are hour(s) long requirements gathering - wasting many people's time, egotistical and condescending upper management ...

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5.0
May 3, 2022
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Pros

great team; management communicates well; strive for good work/life balance

Cons

benefits could be better but decent overall;

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VizExplorer Response
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Your time and effort to post is appreciated. It is wonderful that our aim to communicate well and maintain a strong work/life balance is noticed. If you have specific ideas about how benefits could be improved, we would love to hear them. Again, thanks.
2.0
Apr 3, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The grunt work team is fantastic to work with. They are great people, who try very hard to help accomplish goals.

Cons

The upper management chose to hide vital information from everyone until the company basically died. At no point did any of the financial numbers presented in various all-hands meetings indicate how bad the company was doing. This lead to reduction of the entire staff to around 5 people. Everyone who saw the actual numbers were able to see the writing on the wall and leave before the implosion. Everyone else was left blindsided.

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