Wrapbook Reviews

I was hired and told to expect it to be slow at first, and told I would be helping with one thing and was thrown everything but that. It was also in no way slow at first it was drag race fast into a wall. Training for the role I was in was severely lacking. No process documentation that was clear and concise, let alone current. Multiple processes for one task, one ten minute training on a major task in my first week, and then because people were fired from the team and out on leave big responsibilities put on the new person, and then they say we know we did a terrible job training you, but you're a terrible disappointment of an employee. (Professionally of course) Typical payroll start up issues. EXTREMELY siloed departments. If you are any sort of support you don't get certain company holidays off, not really provided with an option for In Lieu day. If you do go to a company event, be prepared for more work than the expected fun, especially if you are in a support role. Most of the employees complain coming back that the most recent one was said they should have just stayed home. Employees getting sloppy drunk at company events. Slack camera on all the time. And if you are someone who doesn't stare into the camera management might think you aren't paying attention, or if you smile that you are laughing at them. I was warned coming into the company by team members that certain members of upper management were to be avoided or tip-toed around because they were hot-heads and liked to tell employees they didn't deserve their jobs and could get fired like their previous manager.

I think the cons are purely ones around growing pains: We have more work to do than staff to do it, and are trying to hire to fill the roles. Along with growing pains is a forming culture. We are still working out "who we are" and "how we work together" and as a result communication is sometimes troublesome. The fact that we're remote makes things trickier still, in that sense. Another issue is expertise in our industry is tough - so we're learning as we go, working with our customers, but it does mean sometimes features/details shift as we learn more. That's frustrating and confusing at times. While the way we do things is "vanilla" rails in engineering, there are some conventions and styles used in the codebase that are unique to this project, so picking them up can be a learning curve.