Vantaggi
They hire based on character, meaning there’s a lot of wonderful people there. The developers at moresteam are fantastic coworkers. They’re smart, passionate, and above all friendly. I made a lot of friends and enjoyed every person on my team. There’s a lot of flexibility and time for collaboration and also fun throughout the day. You get to have a say in everything you work on. It’s a fantastic place to work for day to day operations in terms of enjoying who is around you and being able to take ownership of your work. There are often dogs in the office, food in the office, parties or cookouts at the office. It’s a pretty nice small office. People make an effort to get to know you. Interns each summer. Mentorship program. Management/sales etc gets to know you personally, maybe not what you work on exactly, but you all eat lunch together and it makes it easier to have good relationships at work.
Svantaggi
The dev team is entirely made up of people who have only every worked at MoreSteam, meaning that there’s a lot of senior level software practices they’re missing out on. Basically: they don’t know what they don’t know. I missed out on a lot of things a senior developer with outside experience would have taught me. Management refuses to hire senior or principal developers. They hire at good entry level rates, then give low raises. They also don’t pay the full bonus. You are required to be in the office 3 days each week. The products aren’t always fun to work on. New ones are very fun, but the legacy products are a drain on both resources and your sanity. Since there aren’t any professional product owners (dev managers own the product) , there isn’t a proper future plan for how to move the product forward. You’ll spend a fair amount of time on legacy code doing things which could be doing things more efficiently if they thought through their development processes better, which is ironic for a Lean Six Sigma company.