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Shaw and Partners

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If you are not looking for just a good salary, think twice. - Software Engineer Shaw and Partners Employee Review

2.0
20 Feb 2020
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Pros

1) Pays in Dollar, which is very interesting for brazilians right now. 2) Good code review culture. 3) Devs are technically good, but some are bad team players and unsupportive. 4) Work from home.

Cons

1) The whole selection process is a mess and unclear. I applied as a back-end engineer, but after selection I had to work on front-end tasks repeatedly. 2) Product decisions are always top-down. Daily meetings are more like a status report to the boss. 3) As an engineer, you will not be able to access staging/dev database if you're not a devops guy. Same for any tool in the cloud. 4) The apps you'll be working on are small, with little traffic and low number of users. 5) Screenshots, micromanagement, microestimatives... You don't feel like they trust you too much.

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Shaw and Partners Response
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This dev worked on a client project for two months and was rejected because of performance issues we noticed but took a while to confirm. We gave him an extra month to find another job. I know he is a good person and I think he's unhappy about the result as he was being paid well and this is likely a difficult time for him. About the cons: 1) We hire devs capable of full-stack, and the job will involve more front-end than back-end at times. 2) Product owners ultimately drive those decisions, discussing with the team leads. Stand-up meetings are a group report to the team. This dev wasn't involved. 3) Our DevOps team provides all the access needed, but not direct administrative access. 4) This dev's projects only have a few thousand visitors per month but a high-cost per acquisition. 5) When performance is a problem, there is plenty of science to show that guardrails are key. Again, please consider that your experience comes from a situation that didn't work out because of performance. Thanks for the comments.

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