Vantaggi
- Exciting engineering work around programming language tools.
- Great learning opportunities for Juniors.
- Extremely talented coworkers in comparison to the rest of the industry.
- The vast majority of the team is very friendly.
- The dominant French culture has a strong impact on the way criticism is expressed and work relationship established, can be a pro or a cons but something to be aware of.
- Good work/life balance.
Svantaggi
- The "Openness" core value of the company can only be witnessed on the walls it is displayed on. Most managers do not know the salary of their engineers, and meaningful strategical decisions are the privilege of the five or six happy few.
- Omnipresent office politics after reaching a certain level of expertise that will make or (most likely) break your career in the company.
- Efficient HR team, able to get any employee to quit if they disagree with the executive agenda, using a good mix of threats, pressure and intimidation,
- Limited career opportunities, fixed quota of Seniority per team.
- AdaCore already sells its subscriptions to 95% of the customers it could sell to. Trying to scale this up implies selling new products to the same customers. At some point you run out of new high quality products to sell.
- Cost cutting policies that discarded the philosophy of the funder after his death. Any employee used to have the opportunity to travel to company offices or trade shows, every year, meet coworkers, and benefit from the company success. Greed from the next CEOs caused this to gradually disappeared year after year (except for the happy few).
- The turnover rate skyrocketed over the past years.