Chaotic - Recensione dipendente - Anonymous Employee presso Student Beans

- Easy product to sell if you like marketing

- Forecast calls EVERYDAY - Zero support or training from the management - Shady dealing and ghost employees - Gaslighting Culture - Poor System and excel heavy - Cannot compete with Unidays

- some friendly peers - provided with nice laptop

- Delayed & Inadequate Manager Introduction: interactions minimal & primarily limited to Slack - Uncollaborative Goal Setting: Goals set without employee input - Confused Management Hierarchy & Lack of 1-2-1s: ambiguity regarding who my engineering manager was, no 1-2-1 meetings or direct contact - Resistance to New Ideas: Suggestions for process improvements dismissed out of hand despite company presenting as open, fast-moving & cutting-edge - Highly inadequate QA - devs tested their own code (!) often leading to breakages in live - Lack of Context & Mixed Messages on Work: Large tasks assigned without sufficient background info. Contradictory directives re. ongoing work caused confusion & wasted effort. * Misuse of Story Points as a Performance Measure: * Story points used to measure dev performance (!), artificial cap of 5 undermined purpose of breaking down work & led to impossible deadlines, code purposefully rushed & substandard - speed prioritised over quality, messy codebase & large tech debt * Thorough code reviews discouraged - time for reviewing others' merge requests (MRs) not accounted for in story points, leading to lack of support & late feedback on fundamental code changes * Inaccurate Portrayal of Flexibility: Promised flexible working hours (start between 8am & 12pm), but early morning meetings made this impossible * Three month notice period even for junior devs!!