Abandon hope all ye who enter here - Engineer ETQ Employee Review

2.0
15 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

ETQ has a good customer base.

Cons

Our flagship product is old and tired. The web part was overhauled in the beginning of the year but the Java code remains the same and there is one word for that code - spaghetti. Everyone is trying to get everyone to work together but there are so many mixed messages that none of us engineers know to whom to listen or what to believe. The "majority are already in the Cloud" rebuttal is misleading at best. When a Cloud provider is used to replace hardware, that move is nothing more than hosting. The "moving them to new technology quickly but carefully" quote also misleads engineers and customers alike. For engineers, the new technology is limited to a select few and this "new" technology is only new to the company not to an experienced engineer. For customers, few, if any, customers will see these "new" technologies anytime soon - before 2021 possibly but that date is optimistic. Most engineers are doing maintenance work on a 20 year old product. There is nothing to learn while at ETQ that will be useful to learn for a job after ETQ. If you are a good engineer, do you and your career a favor and pass on ETQ.

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ETQ Response
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Responding on behalf of Morgan Palmer, CTO @ ETQ. “Our modernization program involves a migration from legacy to future technology, overhauling the product in stages while simultaneously releasing new features and supporting our customers as they continue moving to the Cloud. Such a multi-faceted technical initiative may not be for everyone, but for team members that embrace these challenges, you have the opportunity to be part of a transformative legacy-to-SaaS project, gaining valuable skills that will be widely needed in the marketplace for many years to come. We invite you to discuss your role and career path with your manager, as we are in the evolution of ETQ and working to implement professional development and career paths as part our commitment to developing people.”

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