Software Development Team Leader employer review

Comment: There is a big 'legacy' code base that needs to be maintained, which is old, grown code, but that's usually just a really small part of the daily work (maybe 1-2 bug fixes per month). All the new code bases have a focus of high quality & maintainability.

Comment: All new stuff is documented well, but it is also tried not to overdocument stuff, so not to create to much documentation (which will then get outdated).

Comment: Automatic CI/CD pipelines, synthetic tests, etc. are in place and working well.

Comment: Which tech is used is a team decision.

Comment: While contribution to open-source-software is not prevented, it's also not getting encouraged a lot. I did not contribute to any open source project yet, but if the situation arises, it would certainly be okay to do.

Comment: Feature planning is a collaborative process with the team.

Comment: It's an everlasting process to try to reduce time spent in meetings and it get's better and better over time. We highly try to avoid 'this could have been an e-mail meetings' but it's not always possible.

Comment: In theory yes, but in praxis it's often really hard to get market feedback quickly, because the devs are not as much involved with clients as they should be. Due to recent organisational changes this can only improve though.

Comment: This is something we are definitely struggling with, because a lot of details are often unclear when starting a new feature/project.

Comment: We have regular techtalks with internal speakers (multiple per month), and monthly techtalks with (GREAT!) external speakers. Additionally we have a Security course that's always running where we can progress over time. Once or twice a year we meet physically for dev days where presentations etc. are given and every 1-2 years we meet in Montreal for a huge dev event with internal & external talks etc.

Comment: Everyone is willing to help out, we had a lot of juniors already and they stay for a long time.

Comment: We had the craziest switches in the past already, from dev to technical support to sales engineer, obviously from dev to management etc, all possible.

Comment: Very safe environment, no one shouts at you or similar. Failing is part of growth.

Comment: Everyone can work in their preferred way, but there are tasks, activities or projects that require team collaboration.

Comment: New high-end laptop every 3 years.

Comment: Working hours are flexible, but it's a given that meeting times must be respected. 2 fixed days where everyone is in the office, 3 days of your own choosing (homeoffice or office).

Comment: Really, really nice chairs, table soccer and a nice camera lab.

Comment: No pressure for overtime at all. Sometimes 'late' meetings happen due to the time difference to Montreal (headquarter), not later than 18:00/19:00 and quite rare.

Comment: Fair payment, yearly bonus & food vouchers (edenred) or the Klimaticket Austria

Comment: Super great atmosphere, everyone is super nice and a lot of people are also doing private activities outside the office, e.g. we have a Dungeons & Dragons group, recently started a gaming discord server for some after work games.

Comment: Feedback is much appreciated, communication is key

Comment: As it's mostly a technical team we have a quite high male employee percentage, but that's a given in IT. Atm probably 80:20? The backgrounds a super diverse, we have people from all countries.