Go Local Interactive Software Engineer reviews

Some of the people you meet here will be some of the best you've ever worked with. That's what makes it so hard because they deserve so much better than this place. When you start, the engineering team pulls you in immediately. They're talented, welcoming, and genuinely collaborative. Everyone is trying to lighten each other's load, and before long, those relationships become the only real reason you show up. You notice the same names getting promoted every cycle, the same faces collecting awards, given every stage to stand on, and every opportunity to drive change, while everyone around them is quietly passed over, no matter what they contribute. You realize the owner's children and their inner circle aren't climbing the ladder so much as they were placed at the top of it. You notice the college graduates coming in, hired almost exclusively because they can be paid almost nothing, and you watch them get thrown immediately onto the most escalated, most frustrated clients with no experience and no support. Burn through cheap talent, have sales close another contract. And sales will always close another contract, because they have no real understanding of what the product can actually do. Every partner gets overpromised, every launch becomes a frantic race to build features that should have been scoped honestly from the start. The result is buggy, the clients leave a year later, and somehow the blame always finds its way back to the engineering team, the same team drowning in tech debt, they are never given time to address. The only path to a real raise is a title change, and the only title worth having is manager, so the company has more managers than it has people to manage. Someone literally became the manager of a department of one just to get the raise they'd been asking for. Even that door got shut eventually, gutted through a "pay band restructuring" clause that was quietly dropped and never resolved. Then comes the company-wide huddle where the CEO announces that he wants to replace everyone with AI. You watch him cycle from one experimental tool to the next, the same way leadership cycled through three different CMS platforms in a single year. You raise concerns. You're told that if you don't like it, you're welcome to find employment elsewhere. You lean on the people around you because they're the only thing making any of this bearable. And you wait for a response from another company. As leadership sells out and abandons the ship they've run aground, I can only hope everyone else finds a way out too.

There are a few very good people who work here, and you will always want better for them. You learn about your coworkers’ families and lives, and you realize no one deserves to work here. Some people leave, and you feel sad because they were integral to your team. Some people leave, and you’re happy they’re finally gone. Others come back out of necessity, and your heart drops because again, no one deserves to work here. For so long, your calls to better your team, company, and managers get drowned out and brushed off. You get borderline harassed by those highest up to increase pressure, workloads, and expedite deadlines. Expect calls in the middle of the night. Expect slack messages at 10 p.m. Expect to stay after hours and sacrifice your weekends. This is what they expect of you. And if you disagree and want a life outside of work, speak up and say something, you become a target. An example they can use to gaslight others into capitulating. Every day you hope you get a response from the other companies you've been applying for so you can finally leave. Maybe you have loved ones who depend on you, so you try to make the best of it you can, but every day at GLI makes your life more miserable; you begin to feel trapped. There are cliques that gang together in every department. The best way to get through your time at this company is to be as hands-off as possible and keep to yourself. There are deeply disturbed individuals who work here. It’s not worth wasting your time; it’s not worth making yourself susceptible to such an environment. The 2.4 rating is manipulated. It used to be 1.8, but summer interns who are not full-time are encouraged to submit 5-star reviews to bump the overall score (including some by the owner's children). Real people with real lives get ruined at this company. Fresh-out-of-college kids get thrown into the fire and severely underpaid. I’ve heard salaries of $ 36k for some new full-time workers. I’ve seen extremely smart people and extremely hard workers get overlooked and their opinions ignored. This is why turnover is so high. You only climb the ladder if you’re a favorite and suck up to your higher-ups while putting others down. Current workers know this. This company operates under false promises and blackmail. Intimidation, gossip, and secrecy run rampant, while management gets salary increases for lateral movements that are falsely labeled as “restructuring.” All of this is my opinion from my personal experience working here. Do not work here. Don't let people you care about work here.