Good company to grow up in your career, learn good practices and leave. - Senior Fullstack Developer Octobot Employee Review

4.0
22 Mar 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The human team is fantastic, as well as the work-life balance. They have many activities to build community. They also have a junior training program that gives an opportunity to junior developers to start their career. The former CTO had high code quality standards. Now that Sparq has acquired the company and with the change of CTO, this is something that could change.

Cons

With the new acquisition by Sparq there is a "woke" culture, with a false "inclusion" (only if you are LGBT, black or another supposedly "oppressed" group) The tech stack is a bit years behind, they use Django for almost every project, and almost none project have automated deploys. As for the salary, it used to be relatively good for the local market, but in the last 2 years almost no one received an increase in their salary, but an increase in their responsibilities.

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3.0
19 Mar 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Work on innovative projects in a collaborative environment

Cons

You may have challenges with the noise in the busy streets if you work on-premise.

3.0
13 Mar 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Definitely here the answer is the teammates, the team. Even though they give you terrible tasks and you don't have a competitive-salary, there is a commitment to deliver the best.

Cons

They have been promising to update the career path for 2 years. They do not update your salary, there are many people who leave for this reason. There are no challenges at the level of clients and projects, who are put in priority even if they mistreat you or are not receptive to your proposals. They say they give priority to people, but when they say this they mean those who pay them, not their employees. Customers are charged 70 usd and employees are paid a sixth/fifth of that. They take advantage of any situation that occurs in the office to post it on Instagram to raise the level of the employer brand. They have been taking away benefits as time goes by. the organization and communication of the operations manager is very bad, from the side of clarity and the way he treats people. The management of the organization between projects, knowing that there was a lack of resources was not good. He has achieved that teams are completely burned out, even when the situation was mentioned to him, and there was no intention to change this.

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