In summary, if you're a developer please consider your options. Non emotively here are the facts:
• there is no Dev Ops team. I don't know what happened but this is a publicly listed technology company with no dev ops team.
• 90% of the team has left to be replaced with contractors because they cannot retain staff
• they still practice waterfall. There is a business owner who talks to the product owner who talks to the business analyst and designer who emails you designs that cannot work
• they have lost their CEO, and CIO. The chief engineer is a developer backfilling the role.
• their share price is now down to 30cents
• they charge $56k for an email alert, the same as a google alert
• The systems fail weekly.
• You copy paste a jwt token into your cookies to develop
• It took 3 weeks
• there is no documentation, nor standards, nor comments and anyone who knew how to build it left to go to a bank
• the pay is 75% of the banks annual salary
• there is no culture. They lock the doors at 6pm every night. There are no beers on a Friday everybody goes home.
My story:
I loved the sound of iSentia when I first started. As a developer working with media and machine learning to drive insights for a diverse range of customers and heads of state. I couldnt wait to start!
Unfortunately - this was a lie the interviewer told me because they were desperate for employees. The very first thing that happened when I started - my boss quit. Then the project lead's first words to me verbatim were "we'll see if your here in a week"
The next week because two people had quit, although i was a contractor , I ended up interviewing the next batch of contractors. No joke.
There is no leadership, no vision, no passion, no flexibility, no dev ops, no help, no one cares about anything because no ones running the place. No one cares what stak you use because no one checks it. No one can make a decision and people email you sitting beside you. It is super political because chaos is a ladder.
True story - we setup a project and there was no dev ops so we couldnt deploy to the dev and uat environment for 4 weeks. I had no permissions to deploy anything so i escalated and asked everyone included the chief of engineering and nobody knew who to ask to get permissions. Wow...
It is so beyond help I can't over exaggerate it, like I almost want you to come to check it out haha
