Procore Technologies Software Engineer reviews

Runs a standard ruby monolith, but trending towards better architecture as needed.

There hasn't been an original line of code written at Procore since about 2012. The big challenge here is scaling the core Ruby on Rails application from a few hundred thousand users to a few million. I don't know when it happened, but at some point all of our developers became exclusively reliant on copying code from Stack Overflow. I come across Voodoo Code all of time, and it's not legacy -- it's by design. I honestly don't think the engineering leadership here believes code can be valid unless it was written by someone else and up-voted 25 times. We've long since exceeded the boundaries of what Rails was intended for. We've gotten to a point where we're constantly recycling ideas that worked once-upon-a-time and applying them to out current situation with brute force. Procore looks like a start-up, smells life a start-up, and acts like a start-up. But joining has been the biggest mistake of my professional career. Creatively is actively stifled, new ideas are constantly maligned, and our CEO and President are 100% hands-off when it comes to development. Their trust is misplaced.