Run away from them, company full of red flags - werkgeversreview Senior Software Developer bij CPKC

1,0
20 feb 2024
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Pluspunten

1. Nice and beautiful office location with their own parking lot. Can have a good walks. 2. Awesome cafeteria, with good choice of food for lunches. 3. Large working desk tables.

Minpunten

1. Way conservative environment, oppose to changes and automation. Anything new will be rejected as it might potentially break something short term. Even though in long run it brings ton of benefits. Software stopped in development about 30 years ago. 2. Team does not own what it is responsible to manage. Mostly no access to fix problems quickly. Though the team is taking responsibility for those servers/apps/dbs/queues/etc. Leads to team working longer hours. 3. Zero trust policy. 4. No plans in improving existing system/flows. No real yearly plan: the plan is to keep things going in not a plan. No commitment to share some percentage of time for system improvements, fixing tech debt, decrease root cause of incidents. Datahammers over code change and improvements is not a good way. 5. Micro-management: asking in person what you are busy with. 6. Technical: No choice of laptop/software/technologies to run. Crazy rule for tech people to have no admin rights to their workstation (this is shame), VDI which sucks and does not perform at required level, workstation also is below industry standard. Tools and tech pieces are waited for weeks after were requested. No clear understanding of what is allowed and what not. 7. Nigh time or weekend only deployments: way behind industry standard. Takes time of employees, was not sounded before job offer. Same for patching weekends. This is poorly paid (ridiculously low payment) and CP is the only beneficiary of this. 8. No coding. Tasks expected to be done are not developing me as a developer in a direction I am interested. Looking into garbage code written in last century in a language that does not exist anymore will not bring any benefits for me if I part ways with company. Even though they hire for specific technology. 9. Weak level of team members from technical point of view. Low courage to participate in activities and share their ideas/thoughts on troubleshooting and learning sessions. Ignorance from team members side as they do not understand what was asked. 10. No windows or natural light seen from work place. 11. Low to no output of what was promised. 12. Many people leaving company, heard this since day one from several employees and the reasons were/are obvious. 13. Management and regular developers do not share knowledge in order to keep their job. 14. No free coffee/tea/etc. 15. Software Engineers work with the same rules as if they were train operators. And many many others.

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5,0
20 dec 2025
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Pluspunten

Great pay, and benefits, good environment,

Minpunten

First 3-5 years stressful until you get familiar and understand how railroads work.

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2,0
29 mei 2026
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Pluspunten

Lots of opportunities to provide value

Minpunten

Poor leadership at the C-level. CIO has no control over the direction of the IT landscape beyond what is dictated to her by the CEO and other business owners. The IT environment is almost solely controlled by the demands of the business at the cost of being able to manage and adapt to needs. 20 years behind the market in the adoption of cloud technology. Existing cloud strategy was built by engineers pressed into the role of architects and learning as they progressed along. No automation or DevOps presence whatsoever outside what the platform teams use to simplify their own workloads. Remote work is considered a 4-letter word and is extremely frowned upon as anything other than an as-needed and pre-approved option. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery are still done using backups and shadow copies of key infrastructure, and those key systems are decided upon at the time the tests are planned instead of testing the company's infrastructure in its entirety. Data centers are geographically separated, but are significantly disparate in what is physically hosted and accessible. Recognition and rewards are overtly encouraged, but are covertly handed out based on the level of visibility and impact to the business and stakeholders. Senior leadership constantly touts open-door policy and approachability, but give off vibes and impressions opposite of the overt policy. The company puts on a show of being diverse and inclusive. Case in point, the hiring of a female CIO. The problem is that working within an 'old boys network' leadership, it doesn't matter how inclusive and diverse the company appears because those elements are never given the opportunity to show their value.

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