wojtek322 said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...,@Lensflare Well, this is not a big company. We don't even have 50 employees :'),@Lensflare Oh no, i'm already past that point in this company and simply don't care what happens to this company. I'm at this point baffled how this company still stays afloat
This company waves so many red flags you would assume it is part of the USSR.,I saw someone post an image to /r/programmerhumor and decided to check the site out
Registered soon after,Also, we are now officialy one month later since I requested time off for end of December.
It still has to be approved or rejected.,@retoor my work is already being a PITA for the remaining of my annual leave (20 days) and that is not yet being approved.
But it is not the only thing they are taking away in 3 years... Let's see...
Before i started, they worked at a coworking space including free lunches for the colleagues
The company grew & they moved out. I then joined them (3y+ ago). Since then:
- removed free beer & free soda at workplace
- company-wide meetings used to include free lunch
- company-wide meetings now is the afternoon & usually runs longer than our workign hours. They however fix dinner (usually sandwiches) but that is optional
- company events is now in the evening instead during office time,@wojtek322
- Our office policy was "i dont care", now 2 days mandatory work in the office
- 38 work week, now 40
- removed unlimited PTO
- removed the perk that you could get a part of your sport costs paid back (gym membership, sport clothing, ...)
- monthly fuel cap for company car
- not allowing car to be driven outside of my country
- removal of alcohol on work events- monthly
-lunchmeetings with the devops teams was removed*
- ...
\* friday was often just working in the morning. Lunch for 2 hours (or 3). Then sprint review/meeting (aka, drinking beer/soda with remote team). Then people stayed in the office till 19:00 and have multiple drinks and then drive home drunk (very very safe)
It's just an other perk that is being taken away... While it is not that big of a deal, it adds up quickly.,@retoor Enjoy!
My company sadly didn't grow too much. We went from 25 people to 35 then back to 30 and we stabilized around here...
Depending on the month because we have a high turnover,@retoor For sure. But it feels I did not a lot in my time at the job. I've written a lot of code, threw away a lot code
I'm soon starting my fourth year at this company and i've already had:
4 different COO
6 different project managers
6 different redesigns
24 ex-colleagues in the dev team alone. (team size now is 9)
etc
Still no idea how this company stays afloat.,@retoor
financial reasons: 1
Left on his own accord: 5
bullied: 3
Left because else left: 4
Left because the CEO: 3
fired for incompetence: 7
Too junior / financial reasons: 2
Stopped showing up: 2
I forgot about 3 ex-colleagues hahaha,@wojtek322
One coworker was extremely competent but he acted careless (which his work was not) and was very extroverted. The COO disliked him & fired him when he was on holiday (and called him during his holiday & ruining his holiday)
Other colleague was fired by the same COO because she was disliked because she did not meet the deadline. The deadline was not her issue but very unrealistic. it was a major rewrite of our apps logic, not something you can do in a month but 4 months at least. She went on holiday and was fired after she came back.
The other colleague was this one: https://devrant.com/rants/6445422/...,@retoor There are enough red flags but my position as a front-end developer was never really affected that much. Hence why i sticked around and this is my first job so I thought it might look better to my future employees to be here for 3 or 3+ years.
Then there are so many red flags in the sales department, technicians, support, finance, ... Logistics / admin department has no drama yet.
It honestly feels more that I'm a background character for a sitcom. I have no idea how this company is making a profit each year. It baffles me.,@PappyHans For sure. It's an EU company and not a multinational. I hope they play by the rules.,@antigermanist Their product does not use HTTP or HTTPS but a whole different protocol. I'm not sure how their authentication is done for their devices. Maybe their admin platform that probably uses HTTPS has been hacked. I have no idea about how it happened (yet).,@antigermanist We have also detected hacking attempts earlier this week but my colleagues have determined that their attempt was not successfull.
Since we are a direct competitor of them, i assume they have been hacked by the same party and on a very similar way like they attacked us.,@AlgoRythm Unsure, that is what the COO told us. He got that email forwarded so not sure if he was exaggerating or really the case (hashed or not). Maybe the password manager was compromised or an exploit was found to bypass the authentication. IDK at this point. They have not yet made a public statement.```
