Vantaggi
- It offers a good relocation package to the Netherlands, so if you need a visa for coming to work over here it is a "nice" choice. It includes between 5k and 7.5k of cash, visa expenses, plane ticket for you and your partner/family, 1 month of rent and an agency services to help you find a home. - The lunch is good, and it costs around 2.5 euros, already included in your payslip, which is a great deal for the Netherlands. - The offices are quite nice, usual perks such as fruit, coffee. - If you are lucky, you get a good manager that will help you grow. - *most* of the teams have a good work/life balance
Svantaggi
- This was the company I've been disappointed the fastest in my career, realised it was not a good company after 3 months being in there. - The company embaraces and promotes people that firefights issues in production, the type of people that can find the bug on the spaghetti code put into production and fix it fast. On the other hand, if you are a person that likes to be preventive, tries to push for better coding practices, promotes the development of tests in order to AVOID AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE future issues in production, you will get nothing. I had a manager that told me that "writing tests was slowing us down", and I must stop writing them. - There is a big monolith written in Perl. Having a monolith is not bad per se, coding in Perl is not bad per se. Having a monolith in perl without proper ownership of teams through the code, with people pushing changes without even testing them, with people making deploys and not caring about anything during the process, is horrible and painful. If I had known this before joining, I would have not joined at all. - All the people I referred had a horrible experience on the interview process, which tells me that 1) I was lucky in the recruitment process, and 2) there are a lot of unprofessional people working in HR. - I did not experience it myself, but there are a lot of burnout cases through the company (I personally know 2 cases). Most of them are a consequence of bad managers. There are a lot of good managers but most of them will not shine, as they are not showponies. - There are a lot of retaliation cases, also did not happen to me but it did to a close friend. If you decide to join, do get well with your manager. - If you want to grow in there, you need to have 3 things: - excellent communication skills - excellent commercial awareness. - speed coding and pushing changes fast. Quality of your code is not important at all (unless you get a good manager). - Being a team lead sucks, as you will have way more responsibilities than the developers, but the difference on the payslip is between 0 and 5%. - During the interview process they will tell you that they will support your partner on finding a job. That is a huge lie. The only thing they do is give him/her a couple of CV trainings.
