Unilink software Reviews

I was hired and made redundant, with another colleague, within the span of two months. My team was massively downsized, with very little warning. They ended up keeping fewer testers than development teams, which is madness, and word on the grapevine is that they've ended up asking some of the redundant testers to return. Shameless. HR and very immediate line management were the only sources of compassion in this process- employees that had served for years were let go with little fanfare.

- awful office conditions in Newcastle - a house turned into an office, lots of guys sitting next to each other in a small stuffy room, if you go to the loo you need people to move their chairs to make a way for you - employed as a Back End Engineer but was made to write automation tests 90% of the time - tests were for the Front End that was in the porcess of development and that meant rewriting the tests on and on - tech leads could not make up their mind on how automation tests should look like and keept changing all the time the standards on how to write them - monotonous work - praise-to-criticism ratio 1:9 - zero diversity, only white British men amongst developers - lots of micromanagement, managers without even saying 'hi' keep asking all the time if tasks are finished - not trust - the only idea on how to produce successful software is to mindlessly and quickly do JIRA tasks so we can see some nice burndown charts at the end of the sprint - difficult to understand codebase - blame culture, often blaming other team in the South, finger pointing etc - constant problem in delivering on time for the client - lots of people leaving - people laid off during lockdown