Bad engineering environment - Web Developer Bridge Employee Review

2.0
25 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Weekly free lunch; relatively flexible work times; dog-friendly work space; great opportunity to work on your communication skills with managers who don't know how to communicate.

Cons

Made to feel like you always need to work; poor management and leadership with zero communication skills; encouraged to write bad code so that you finish, resulting in the devs constantly being on call fixing bugs because it doesn't work; don't prioritize making a product that works well and is easy to use because there's little competition in the space. Bottom line: boss treats you like an idiot, makes you cry, then you go home at night and feel bad that you're not still working, then you go back the next day and do it all over again.

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5.0
14 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

-Work From Home -Unlimited PTO -Competitive Salaries and Compensation -Amazing team members and healthy work environment

Cons

-Only able to meet most of the company in person once a year

5.0
12 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of unique pros to share about this company and team. -Founders are both amazingly skilled and dedicated with a well-informed vision for the company and how to improve this historically underserved space. Philosophically they take a thoughtful, long-term perspective to both revenue and product growth with an emphasis on sustainability and control. This was extremely refreshing to me, having come from a typical VC-backed tech company whose focus was always heavily skewed toward whatever arbitrary metrics investors wanted to see to justify throwing more cash at it. I appreciate the freedom from that paradigm every day I'm here. -Open and transparent culture where diversity of opinion and perspective is legitimately valued / encouraged. Vibe I'd describe as less college, more grad school (e.g. less ping pong tables and kombucha, more book clubs and board games). -Amazing product / service that solves an *actual* problem that needs to be fixed, which is reflected by the countless heartfelt thank you's you'll receive from real humans that get to begin their lives as a direct result of your work. -Also the Sales engine here is of the most intelligent and sophisticated I've ever seen. Hyper personalized, data driven, strategic, and constantly pressure-testing assumptions. -Forward-thinking approach to hiring that's very open to remote, and the percentage of distributed folks is steadily growing.

Cons

Being that we aren't VC-dependent, there's also not as much capital to haphazardly burn through in the way we often see in the valley, so new initiatives tend to move slower and more carefully.

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