FluentStream Technologies Software Developer reviews

Nothing ever gets delivered. Absolutely no planning and always with radical ideas. It feels like management is intentionally trying to spend their IT budget and everything is just for paperwork. After a while, I even stop trying and was just hanging out and collecting my paychecks. CTO is eccentric and surrounds himself with similar people only. He is always busy and becomes a bottleneck. He will not show up in your 1:1 meetings that his assistant schedules, no acknowledgment or apologies later.

It is the worst code base ever and it's a result of having a foundation of no one around to ever give quality code reviews but blame each other instead making for a horrible work environment to boot. Not only is it in a language I would heavily not recommend starting out your dev career in, but you won't be able to actually learn or grow into a quality dev because you're working on a codebase done by people who were paid so abysmally low and made to work so many hours that literally the only social life they could ever have is that within the "company". Even if you don't mind PHP, this is not the codebase to learn on unless you want to actually learn spaghetti code with no actual structure and then restart everything you thought you knew until after you leave and learn what it's like to work with quality engineers who don't just blame other coders behind your back but actually give quality code reviews for you to grow and learn from. The prior CEO loved to blame which is where the culture propagated from and hasn't changed since and it is extremely difficult to actually turn the codebase into quality code with the foundation it has while still needing to support a large customer base that genuinely seems to be a miracle that stays and grows.