Vantaggi
A relatively uncomplicated interview process and set of initial requirements means Adacta is a company that is easy to join, with an OK salary for entry-level engineers. The offices are nice to go to if your team goes there often, because a bunch of the people were cool and inspirational to work and hang out with. Due to many people in the local IT scene knowing of Adacta, some awesome people will be here, using the company as their stepping stone.
Svantaggi
Adacta's flagship solution, AdInsure, is touted as being super-configurable by end users. What doesn't get mentioned is that these configurations are done in very complicated and clunky ways, warranting a software dev to work on it. Furthermore, much of the core software has already been written. See where I'm going with this? Most software devs work on these configurations, buried in some big JSON files and doing the occasional bit of Node.js. Anyone who spends a long time doing this will stagnate as an engineer very quickly. Furthermore, leadership is highly reactionary about everything. Are you a fantastic employee and want a raise? You *might* get it only when the boss knows you will quit if you aren't given one. Leadership overpromises things to clients and sends a team on a death march? They *might* make life bearable for the team again only if enough team members quit. Until then, prepare for potentially unpaid overtime and lots of it. These two issues compound into employees simply not being able to transition to doing meaningful work. The greatest talents in this company see the writing on the wall quickly and promptly leave. Some of the more talented senior employees left the company recently too, diluting our talent pool further. The company is unable to attract seniors and mid-level devs with their meager salary offerings (oh yeah, salaries are below-average for the Slovenian market), which means that most new employees are juniors. Seniors are stuck having to babysit them all. What can I say? The only consistent neutral or positive employee experience here is if you use the company as your first job for 6 to 12 months as a stepping stone to start getting offers elsewhere, and it is then best left scrunched up and thrown away like an empty soda can.