Decent pay, hazing, favoritism, hazing, mismanagement - Full Stack Engineer Boku Employee Review

2.0
7 Aug 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay was OK, benefits were really good. Free lunch once per week, work from home once per week.

Cons

Absolutely no training whatsoever, people that have been there for years get treated much better than new employees. Most managers are super fake, will run their mouths behind your back to get you in trouble. They play favorites a lot. Perks given to older employees that go against company policy, and you have to be there for years to get treated right. HR is mostly useless. It took w months of me complaining that my laptop didn't work after they gave it to me unprovisioned and had me set everything up with no training and their wiki being out of date by at least 1.5 years in some sports, 3 or 4 years in others. Their setup is incredibly complex and written in java (who uses java nowadays for server side? Seriously), which also takes forever to build. Any small mistake will get you railed by qa and then 2 managers. You are expected to be perfect. My round trip was 6 hours to get to work, and no appreciation was shown. I was told multiple times by managers that I was "a huge risk" which obviously isn't exactly a confidence booater. One manager, after railing me for a simple mistake and talking down to me to make me feel dumb, called me the next day in a Saturday morning at 8am to do it again. If you like abuse, this is the spot for you

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