Progress Reviews

Into the valley of Progress rode the few hundred Progress to the right of them Progress to the left of them Cannons volleyed and thundered So ended the charge of the Chef Brigade Judge us by our actions, judge us by our results and our outcomes - Yogesh Gupta, CEO Progress We observed your actions, the results and the outcomes. Here is the verdict of the Chef Jury - Progress NIL POINTS Progress have hung drawn and quartered Chef. With a wicked smile and a veil of lies from start to finish. A company entrenched in it's technology of 1995 with the moral compass of a failed 20th century Austrian artist with a single orchid. The harbinger of sorrow brought rivers of blood to Chef. Chef is the albatross to Progresses' Mariner. They spied the bird of good omen and killed it and it now hangs like lead around their neck. Chef is dead. When Progress comes to your door. Run, run to the hills, run for your lives

Progress acquired our company and completely replaced the diverse leadership team with an all-male team. This a week after promoting their diversity and inclusion. They made roughly half of engineering redundant at a company where its greatest asset is its people- and shipped the jobs out to India. The day after announcing the redundancies (some of these people had worked here over a decade!) the CEO and leadership hosted a tone-deaf global onboarding with smiles on their faces to welcome us into Progress. All this for what? A company whose growth over the last decade can't keep up with inflation? To maintain a measly 1.7% dividend yield? Look at their history. This company creates nothing noteworthy or known in the engineering space. Engineers who live in the same town as Progress HQ have never heard of the company. This company represents all the dark parts of tech: endlessly firing and outsourcing, chasing a bottom line over valuing people, endless acquisitions... and it has none of the bright parts. No exciting products or projects. As an engineer, unless you live in India, you have to ask yourself: why on earth would you ever voluntarily want to work here?