Grim - Recensione dipendente - QA Analyst presso Relay Software

1,0
27 mar 2016
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Standard benefits - paid overtime and a decent bonus scheme which brought the salary up a bit.

Svantaggi

Salary was below average (even with the bonus and overtime) and not as competitive as other IT companies. There was limited progress. QA was a fractured team as I found it catty and dominated by contentious characters, making it an unpleasant work environment for the others they targeted. QA management were not effective in dealing with the issues and looked like they made things worse with the approach taken. It was a pretty toxic work place with difficulties in managing the people within the team in an effective manner. Dealing with issues in a professional way was seemingly not a priority. The QA office was a grim and depressing space in an attic with limited light because there was an insistence that the lights where kept off by management. This created an unhealthy workplace and wasn't challenged by any other management in the building whilst I was there as far as I know. QA has a high staff turn over with a lot of people resigning within a year. Several walked away because conditions became so dire for them. Essentially it was made difficult for them to properly integrate into the QA team. The sickness level was also something I thought was questionable too. Training and support is minimal. The system is not smooth enough for the approach of learn as you go. Support meant continuously interrupting to ask other team members for help which irritated them and probably made tensions amongst the team worse. I wouldn't recommend QA.

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5,0
3 dic 2024
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Team work , team leads are good and helping

Svantaggi

Nothing to say bad experience

5,0
5 apr 2016
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Working in financial sector with the leading provider of Insurance Solutions in Ireland. The company has offices in Belfast, Galway and Dublin and was founded in 1985. Relay are holders of Investors in People accreditation and offer a good induction program and a mentoring/buddy system for all new starts. Staff are supported/encouraged to gain qualifications and given study leave to complete these. Main coding language is c# ..net 3.5 and SQL server and testing is a combination of manual and automation using Silk. The solutions provided are mainly desktop solutions used by Insurance brokers to sell/administer insurance policies and there are also web applications provided to support the ecommerce trading via web services. The staff loyalty is very strong with a number of staff having 20+ years service and progression of staff is promoted as all Team Leads (including the MD!) started working as a junior developer or QA Engineer and progressed through to management.

Svantaggi

Busy / agile environment which can mean that priorities change at times.

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