good work culture - Recensione dipendente - Global Account Manager presso Methodic

* Lots of drinks (alcohol + Coke) here and fun with Nintendo switches, fancy a game of Mario Kart anyone? * Music of varied genres playing on big 86" TVs * Dashboards are the bomb * Microsoft full stack development space * No windows in the office but you'll get a view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on one of the TVs * LEDs in the crypto-mining on premises servers are the first thing you see when entering so gets you in the mood * Family and friends startup with lots of funding * Why worry about WFH when we've invested in 6+ Dyson air purifiers for the office so you won't catch COVID * Biometrics fingerprint reader for the office so you don't need to worry about carrying a swipe card for access * Birthday's are especially special because you get treated with a delicious cake from The Groups or Flour and Stone * Comfy leather executive office chairs with your very own 32" monitor which takes up most of the desk * Electric scooters are the bomb and make it quicker for us to get into the main CBD area * Pay is quite good too

* Sometimes the drinking needs to start earlier * Need more desk space * You need to go outside to get some fresh air because there's no external windows in the office

- Luxury of using the latest tech without fear of breaking something in production - Frequent drinking session from ~4pm till late night - Fridge full of Cola, lots of booze of all kinds - CTO is really good at telling highly sophisticated nonsense to investors, so there are little to no concerns about future funding

- Double standards in most situations - CTO, his family and friends (that form majority of employees of this small start-up) doing whatever they want to, while everyone else has much stricter rules than a typical corporate environment and is considered inferior - No-one from the latter group was allowed to work from home, even during the COVID pandemic, ones who insisted were fired - Everyone is expected to work over normal hours - Generally no trust to employees - Lack of transparency - Despite looking greenfield there's lots of existing business logic that no one understands (or cares to understand), de-facto zero education given - be ready to start from scratch and be blamed for all the missing pieces later. Regular unexpected changes of requirements included. - Zero management feedback - Really good developers don't stay for long - Teamwork is not only absent but actively discouraged on all levels - Consequently, most won't share any advice (best case) or suggest something deliberately wrong. Blaming individuals and ignoring their opinion is facilitated top-down. - CTO is an infantile, narcissistic tsar who only seems to be interested in drinking and building a cryptomining-proof data centre in the office. Be ready to giggle to his passive-aggressive "humour" during parties. Being a Microsoft fanboy doesn't help business either. - Terrible office conditions - constant (mandatory) loud music. Headphones help a bit but be ready to get exposed to EDM/100bpm+ pop at all times. Mechanical keyboards, constant NSFW exchanges between "the privileged" ones heard by everyone else (even in headphones, yes), it's all everyday reality of the "Meth(odic) experience". Did I mention the data centre? It's pretty loud despite all the RGB illumination in it.