It started off great and went downhill - Anonymous employee Fry Employee Review

3.0
29 Mar 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people who work at Fry are extremely dedicated. The community is very close-knit and everyone is quite willing to help out where they can. Like any company, there are difficulties between departments, but those difficulties could usually be resolved by approaching the other department and addressing their issues.

Cons

The company that bought Fry (MICROS, Inc) didn't have a clue what they were buying. They took a company, with a well known name who was competing with the "big boys", and dragged Fry's name through the mud. Their lack of understanding when it came to e-commerce and how it applied in the space was so severely blinded that they only succeeded in making half the workforce leave in Q4 2010.

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Cons

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2.0
23 Nov 2011
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Pros

Fry does employ some very talented developers. You're always going to find someone willing to spend some time to help when you're stuck, need something explained, or just to bounce ideas off of. If you're looking to break into the e-commerce field, Fry could be a good place to start. You'll be exposed to large clients with diverse requirements.

Cons

Though the sign on the outside may say Fry, make no mistake that this company is now MICROS. The culture now reeks of that large, corporate mentality that's only concerned with the bottom line. Emphasis is placed on working as many billable hours a week as possible. There is no real mentorship for junior or senior-level developers, nor is there any involvement in the very active Ann Arbor developer community. Though management pays lip-service to Fry being an innovative company, the projects are all cookie cutter and almost no investment is made in investigating anything new. The proprietary e-commerce framework used for every project is out-dated, missing features that clients expect, and doesn't scale well for some clients' requirements, thus leading to poorly built solutions that are difficult to maintain. Management does constantly ask for feedback, but never acts on any of the feedback received.

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