Neueda Reviews

Unprepared managers, they seem not to know what they are doing. The company has absolutely no values or culture built, there is absolutely no concern about that. They are just very strict with time and in most of the cases do not allow remote work. People are just seen as number, they are not seeing as individuals. There is no concern about the well being of the employee, as long as they show good numbers to the clients. Lack of good leadership. Weird conversations with line managers, in some situations there are threats, accusations of you being unprofessional coming out of nowhere, making it a toxic environment. They only take into consideration technical skills, forcing people who are not compatible to work together, hating each other, getting miserable and depressed. In some cases, they put extremely arrogant people doing interviews, making candidates uncomfortable. I even heard that some of them cried after the interviews, but the engineer who interviewed them was extremely proud of that. He is proud of doing his spectacles after the interviews, calling people stupid and saying that a person who does not know how to answers the basic questions he asked should be killed. Yes!!! Killed. The managers are compliant with childish behavior of egocentric people, they have absolutely no idea of what happens inside the teams. There was a time in which they came up with really stupid activities to build lego stuff, so that it would make teams work in harmony. Well, guess what, that’s ridiculous and it is not the root cause of the problem. There are some teams who spend ages without doing anything useful, because they have no idea about what the client wants. In the office there were also situations in which they were building new meeting rooms, and the employees were exposed to strong paiting smell, or extremely loud noises from hammering. Yes, they did not warn us about any of that, some people started to feel headaches and left. They simply did not care about the well being of people there and ignored the situation.

- Projects: Overall, the projects are either non existent, meaning you will come to "work" everyday and there won't be anything to do for a couple of months - yes, months - or when you finally get a project, you will either work on a completely different set of technologies that you were hired for or the project will be something that the client didn't want to work on, so they just hired a third party company to work on the "boring stuff". - No career progression - You join as a developer and leave as a developer, the whole structure is flat, apart from the "Junior Developers", who are just underpaid people from third world countries. - The "line managers" aren't line managers, they are just a bridge between the two managers who go out looking for projects, and the developers who are going to work on these projects. They are not technical, even though they are the ones responsible for choosing who is going to work on what. You have one meeting every two weeks with your line manager to discuss how the project is going, and by that I mean they just want to know if there's any internal conflict or if the deadlines can be met, it usually takes 2 or 3 minutes. - The first developers hired by the company were all based in Riga, Latvia, and they patronised the entire company, they mistreat everybody else who weren't hired by their direct recommendation, creating a lot of internal conflict. This is due to the lack of hierarchy, so whoever "shouts louder" wins. - Don't allow remote work at all. - The projects doesn't have scope - which means that you will work blindly, where the client will ask the line managers for something do be done, the line managers will then pass that on to the developers but as the line managers aren't technical themselves they don't know at all what the requirement is all about, and you as a developer isn't allowed to contact the client directly. - They say they "use" agile but there's nothing of that. The only thing they have is a Jira board and daily meetings. Forget about story points, sprint plannings, PO, etc. - Childish behavior during code reviews, lots of internal conflicts in this regard that usually "escalate" to the line managers, as the team architecture is flat. But as the line managers aren't technical they try so solve the conflict on a behavioural level. There's even one case of a guy who was fired because two other people got together and complained about him not being technical enough, even though nobody else in the rest of the team shared the same view. - Annual leave is low, only 21 days. - During the interview they will judge you by your age in order to give you a salary, older people get offered 45k and up and younger people get offered 30k or even less. Your experience/knowledge doesn't matter. People who where recommended by one of the developers based In Riga, who were there at the beginning of the company, usually are the best paid, going from from 65k and up.