Gth Software Reviews

I have been working at GTH Software for a long time as part of the Backend team. if you read this because you are applying to this team, or to this company please read carefully. tl; dr: Do Not Come Here The backend team is controlled by a few unfriendly, arrogant, micro-aggressive smug and vengeful developers. They set the tone for the company. Unless you suck up to them, and agree with their way of life/thinking, you will likely be on your way out, but for sure will have a lousy time coming to work in the morning every day. I have seen them purposely ban, avoid and put down, at least 3 team members, since they were different from them, or did not agree professionally (of even Politically) with their views. Just try to express a different opinion during a code review. You will be sent to the team leader's office for a scolding, and If your comments are valid they will just hate you for it. I saw this happening. All of the "interesting" development is reserved to those devs, while the others perform simple copy-paste code tasks, or handle minor DB or code fixes. Team lunch for example is happening only with the specific members that these developers like and approve. If others join (though purposely not invited) they will receive the silent treatment and feel unwelcomed. Yes, like in 4th grade. A very unpleasant environment to be in. unless you are "popular" with those developers, other company employees will avoid you as well. No one wants to be associated with unpopulars. Is this what you are looking for in a work place? The business is Gambling games. which suffers from a low prestige in the tech world. The tech is obsolete: old Java versions, old spring installation. The code is a big ugly monolith, built 17 years ago with little design improvement. You will spend time fighting your way through this old servlets driven spaghetti code, cursing your days. There is no SAAS (AWS, Azure or such), no no-sql, no microservices, and there won't be any. up until recently, there wasn't even Git. You will learn nothing here as new tech is not adopted almost at all. Not too long ago there wasn't even a license to the DB software we use here. We used a script to periodically renew the license at the Windows Registry. In other words: using unlicensed software. Is that something you are looking for in a work place? Testing and QA is amateur level at best, and bugs quickly reach production. it will be your fault as the developer. Even if an elder dev (remember those senior devs?) or the team leader approved this business specific code, and the different QA levels missed it. blame the little guy alone. The code and the business is not documented at all. Do you have a question? ask those two developers mentioned. Salaries are low. Not nearly enough vacation or sick days. Social benefits (like saving fund) is minimal and cheap (You will get it after 6 month (3 if you negotiate) of starting, and not from day 1). This isn't a friendly place. Upper management personal have a constant temper, teams don't intermix. The Backend team is a real magnet for anti-social individual. they make sure to fire the friendly ones. While GTH Software calls itself a family, you better hope not to have any problems (health of otherwise) in your real family, as the company will be intolerant to your dire needs. It feels like the company is defending itself from you, once you have an issue, instead of helping you getting through the rough patch. A lot of people were being fired or simply fled this place in the last few years. Do yourself a favor, don't be fooled by the fake smiles during the interviews. they will quickly be replaced by frowns or plain ignoring you, and Just move on to the next company on your job search. You will thank me for doing so.