Q² Solutions reviews

All team members are over capacity, working very long hours unnecessarily because they will not hire more people. Training is very lacking. Turn over rate is high, so a lot of time is spent catching up and mentoring when we could have been working. Management is open to speaking with lower level employees, but seem to dangle career development to increase morale. It seems like this is necessary so that workers work extremely hard overtime without compensation with the hopes of at least getting a promotion.

- Major blame culture; you'll be given unrealistic deadlines and chastised for not meeting them regardless of why. If you're lucky enough to meet a deadline, management will make the next deadline tighter. I can't remember the last time anyone on the team met a deadline. - Toxic, untouchable "old guard" - Anyone other than bioinformaticists are treated as second-class citizens - Management actively discourages engineering best practices or pays lip service to them. - "Unit testing" is taking screenshots of PuTTY and pasting them into a word document. This is mandatory. - "Code Reviews" are hour long walkthroughs at the end of a project - Dev process is strangled by blind, iron-fisted enforcement of company process. You'll be lucky to write 300 lines of code in a year. - Expect to pay ~$8000 for real insurance. - Merit raises are below inflation (You'll get a pay cut every year, even for "Above Expectations" Performance