Avoid at all cost - Recensione dipendente - Project Manager presso First Clarity

- Since the size of the company (and the office) are quite small, the colleagues are quite friendly. - If you enjoy doing whatever you want in the codebase, with 0 supervision or repercussions, no testing and no one caring for bugs, then First Clarity is the company for you.

- Payments are delayed/non-existent. Obviously nothing for bonus working time. - The office is in a basement. No windows. Zero outside light. No clean air. You are at the mercy of the closed air system of the building and some artificial lights. - Projects are done to a level that they "seem" to be working. Zero testing of any kind. - Bugs are everywhere. Management does not care for fixing them, only "delivering" new, but mostly broken features to clients. - There is literally no way to learn something new as a developer or a person. Only using old & obsolete technologies, just to barely support the clients that they have. - You never know how the company is doing, because they keep it secret. That's mostly because the company is barely held up. Through having around 10 employees, distributed between 3 separate companies (First Clarity, Evolok & FC People), you never know if you will have a job (that pays) next month. TL;DR : Avoid at all cost if you like yourself. London is a pretty diverse place and there are plenty of better companies for you.

Nothing really, I've racked my brains but cannot find a single nice thing to say here. Possibly the only positive is that everyone is strongly united in how much they hate working there so at least the camaraderie is strong

Where to begin! - the business model the company is founded on is critically flawed - the senior management will take an estimate from developers, slash it in half and 'then' start negotiating costs with the client, leading to genuinely impossible deadlines and budgets - work therefore always has to be done cut-price and shoddy so there is obscene amounts of technical debt to manage - the clients are promised the earth by senior management and it's left for the rest of us to pick up the pieces when the project goes horribly wrong (which it does, always) - the owner of the company and his senior staff have over-inflated egos bordering on narcissism - the finances of the company are extremely dubious, I have never seen anywhere else pay wages two month's in arrears before and points to bad cashflow management