Pros
- Lots of talented & smart people - Relatively high amount of freedom, no micromanagement, in general you're trusted to be a professional and given the freedom to do your job - If Gofore was allowed to be an employee-driven community of experts, it'd actually be an amazing place to work, but alas it isn't allowed to be that, because how would the founders then make bank?
Cons
The company advertises being a "pioneer" in creating an "ethical digital world". The company's founder unironically raves about the company's purpose being "radiating goodness" around it. Knowing the reality it makes want to roll your eyes so hard they'll pop out of their sockets. In reality, Gofore has an extremely simple business model: 1. Appear as an attractive employer by focusing on pull factors not based on compensation, such as culture, community, ethical values, etc 2. Hire expert people at below-market rates 3. Rent those people out to the Finnish public sector at as high hourly prices as possible to do perform extremely tedious work (primarily creating forms) in contracts that last as long as possible 4. Attempt to retain those people by appealing to the same aforementioned community values, while ensuring that their compensation is kept below market rates 5. Channel as much of profits as possible to "investors", i.e. the company founders There's nothing extraordinary about this of course, but it makes you want to puke in your mouth when the founder/CEO talks about all these fluff values while the only real objective seems to be an ever higher stock price & more money for themselves. There is zero reason for the company to be public, because it has zero need for capital. The only ones benefiting are the founders. It's a huge shame, because the company at its core is a self-organizing community of talented people. Shame that to work in that community, you sign away more than 50% of your income to feed a class of vampires that provide nothing in return while spouting hypocritical bs.