Great place to work - Software Engineer Vizzuality Employee Review

- Macbook (although a low spec 13 inches Air) - Fully remote - Up to date tech stack - Good amount of days of vacations (higher than the legal minimum) - Some nice peers

- Very weak onboarding: you have loads of calls with people from several departments (not very useful), instead of being let known about their code standards, etc. You're placed on a greenfield project, irrespective of your level of experience with their tech stack, sometimes on your own (with limited availability from your buddy) and expected to adapt quickly to their rythm... which increases with your tenure: sometimes devs are juggling between multiple projects; - Engineering process could be improved -> 0 tests. - Very low pay, especially given the multiple times of context switching you're subject to and the hours you have to work. Vizzuality pays quite below the market. You can get a 10/15k bump elsewhere. - Projects are almost always more or less the same.

Vizzuality is a mission driven company. Projects are chosen not just thinking of money, but with the premise of making people's lives better and preserving the environment. If that's something you care about it really gives your daily work a new dimension and makes it purposeful. Because of this, too, we get to work with very interesting clients, people who are actually changing the world in organizations and companies with whom we can share values and goals. The team is very diverse and cosmopolitan, including coders, designers, data scientists and researchers with many different backgrounds and coming from all places. Lastly, although you can't always do new things and you are, at the end, working for clients, the projects do many times allow for experimentation, and the use of technologies and solutions that are novel and unique. If you are a curious person you have also the chance to learn new things with each project.

If you are not interested in making a change in society or preserving the environment this may not be the best place for you. If you don't share the values of the company (and the team, for that matter) you may feel a bit isolated. Also, there's usually an urge to go the extra mile with clients, which sometimes results in tight deadlines, frequent changes in specs and a certain feeling of "organized chaos". People are expected to take responsibilities and make decisions quickly, at times at short notice, so if you prefer a predictable environment this may not be your dream job