Progress Senior Software Developer reviews

3.9

24% would recommend to a friend

(41 total reviews)
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Yogesh Gupta

92% approve of CEO

99% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Progress with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 41 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Progress is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Jun 15, 2017
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Pros

As they have no process or accountability, it is easy to do no work for months and still go under the radar. Most of the team comes in by 11 am and leaves at 5 pm, so the work is very relaxed. If you are a Data Scientist or a UI developer, pay scales are decent. If you are ready to just close your mind and suck up to your higher ups, you will do well here.

Cons

1. Poor product design - The product is very poorly designed and hence full of whack-a-mole bugs. You will spend most of you time fixing bugs, that too in a hacky-patchy way. 2. Poor leadership (team leads) - Most of the team leads either don't code or are really bad at it. Absolutely no mentorship to the technical team. If you are a mid-level guy, forget any sort of career progression. 3. Confused Founders - The three founders were never in sync. They had their own idea of the product. They did, however, manage to sell lies to the progress team and got acquired, it is only a matter of time till that bubble bursts.

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Thank you taking the time to post a comment. At Progress, we strive to make sure our employees remain engaged and are continually challenged with their work responsibilities. In addition to initiatives that foster these efforts, we offer programs and materials designed to assist employees in moving forward with their career goals, at all levels. We are excited about the new opportunity that DataRPM presents to our company. We encourage you to reach out to your manager or your Human Capital business partner with your specific concerns.
3.0
May 18, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

***** I've worked only for DataRPM which got acquired by Progress, this review is NOT for Progress overall, only for DataRPM (Glassdoor doesn't let me select DataRPM as the company) **** Pros -- Chilled out culture -- Flexible timings -- Excellent work life balance -- Liberty and freedom to employees -- Good people -- Good compensation -- Impressive Product pitch and use cases

Cons

-- Good product idea and pitch, good use cases it can cater to, but bad execution -- Poor decision making at product design and development -- Poor prioritization of things, leading to a poor quality product -- Management always in a a haste to add newer and newer features to the product to improve its pitch -- They do this to attract investments/acquisition/customers (but quite a few customer engagements end after initial POCs due to poor product quality) -- Less focus on product quality, robustness and good design. The focus is just the pitch, not the product. -- Lack of well defined standard processes for design, development, deployment and testing. -- Chaotic planning. Workarounds and shortcuts everywhere -- This hampers the learning of employees, work starts seeming less challenging

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