Awful place to work for - Senior Software Engineer OpenCraft Employee Review

1.0
31 Mar 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting projects. A lot of open source contributions.

Cons

- Horrible place to work for, you get paid hourly and you have to find tasks on your own to work for, whenever a new task is created it feels like throwing a piece of meat to a bunch of dogs where you have to assign yourself fast and fight for it in order to get paid - Contract specifically states you will get 40 hours worth of tasks at least by opencraft and they are obligated to do so, but that does not seem to be the case, I am not sure how you think we should take work seriously even if you didn't commit on what is stated in the contract, we all work to get living and pay bills if my work does not do that then I will not be taking this seriously. - Management don't care at all I talked with the CTO about this and they did nothing and the CEO had a scheduled meeting after my trial period, he postponed it for a week and then he didn't bother attending - Even when you get a task, it's just part of a bug or missing documentation and a quick fix somewhere, only engineers who have been there for 3+ years get meaningful projects -Although a lot of team members are idle they are still hiring and I don't know why - My mentor was a nice person but he was fairly new and he could not support much when I get blocked - I

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5.0
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Pros

* The level of autonomy and ability to affect change within the company is unmatched. * The all-remote workstyle is truly all-remote. * Highly selective process means everyone's good at what they do. Haven't had to deal with jerks. * Mostly flat organizational style means a more cooperative atmosphere rather than competing for promotions.

Cons

* Compensation can be on the lower side of if you live in the US, especially if you live in a coastal city * The level of autonomy can be too much for people who prefer to work with a direct manager that gives them tasks * Negotiating your rate well to start is very important, as raises are percentage-based and team-wide rather than individual. This can

5.0
8 Jan 2017
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Pros

Everything is set up for effective remote work. Requirements are detailed and precise, and developers can manage their own time. Standards are high, with rigorous code reviews and very talented colleagues. Strong free software ethos - everything is open source.

Cons

Some of the work is a bit tedious (lots of DevOps tasks). The edX project has a lot of stakeholders, so each change goes through several rounds of review and the pace of development can be very slow.

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