Tough gig for engineering - Anonymous employee iSystems Employee Review

2.0
2 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Awesome spirit committee and programming events to help engage employees, including ropes courses, charity races, and cook off competitions. New headquarters are nice. Really talented and inspiring people within those walls.

Cons

The amount of technical debt on their books is only outdone by the sunk costs related to their acquisition of products, making it more of a clean up on aisle six job for technical talent, and not enough actual engineering of solutions for problems. Little of the code is written by anyone in the company and even less is documented. This is all further complicated by ineffective QA management where any small change might result in disaster, making teams too cautious to fix the most obvious issues. The success of the software more greatly reflects the performance by outside contractors, which outnumber the internal staff, making it all frustrating to watch, since this will greatly influence internal job performance scores.

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iSystems Response
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First, I would like to apologize for my tardy reply. Thank you for your feedback and review and I am sorry to hear that you are frustrated. It sounds like you have some valuable recommendations to make to improve efficiencies and decrease the frustration that you and possible others are experiencing. I highly recommend that you reach out to David or myself so that we can discuss your frustrations and ideas in more detail. The executive team is dedicated to making iSystems the best company that it can be for employees and customers and is open to these types of discussions with employees. Thank you again for your feedback. Best, Nicole

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