Abysmal coding standards and corporate inertia - Software Engineer MicroStrategy Employee Review

2.0
Dec 15, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- good work/life balance - inclusive international environment - office in the centre

Cons

- instead of code quality, empty corporate slogans - astounding inertia, every desk and every conference expense has to be personally approved by someone at every level from your manager to CTO; forget about any changes to the way things work - they make a lot of fuss about having become agile but in reality it's just a bunch of rituals and managers being called scrum masters - the project I worked on was turned from an exciting novelty into absurdly bloated spaghetti code with little business perspective because people with good ideas aren't being listened to

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MicroStrategy Response
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Thanks for the feedback and we hear you. The Warsaw Technology team is new, and this year has been an opportunity for trials and errors, leading to lessons learned to improve the way we work and set expectations for the team. Being agile is a reality of our environment and sometimes causes shifting priorities and adjusting the direction of projects to meet technical requirements and customer needs. We’re one of the first to say that our structure is a little hierarchical, but with good intentions to ensure we’re following protocol and being fiscally responsible. Regardless, we have trust in our committed Warsaw Technology team members, and are thrilled with their hard work and dedication given to the recent MicroStrategy 2019 release. We hope next year will be another year of learning to improve our product and the way we work together. Your feedback helps move us in the right direction.

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