STAY AWAY. I'll be leaving in few months... - Software Engineer MDA Employee Review

1.0
Nov 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As a full time employee you get 15% discount on company stock, and you can invest up to 10% of your annual salary. I think this is by far the best perk here. You also get 30% discount on Rogers bills and $10 MS Office Suite. Even though this is an established company, project based nature means every project feels like a startup - you get to do literally everything. Development, product design, devops... I guess this could also be a con, but if you are a younger developer this experience will be valuable later on. Work-life balance is in most cases encouraged.

Cons

Outdated technology everywhere, strict IT policies mean you can't do any work: they don't let you download, install, run anything until IT scans it. USB connection has been stripped recently. Seriously this company is going back in time, and that includes sub-par compensation. Somehow these people believe being able to bank overtime is a killer benefit... No choice of equipment. Getting a laptop here is for some reason a privilege, and you can only get it after certain years of experience. Company is project based, and project teams are put together on demand. This means no product ownership and every code base is pretty much all spaghetti code. Only way the projects get under way is if a customer is willing to pay for it. A joke of a company.

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Cons

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4.0
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Cons

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