Great place to learn and grow as an Engineer. - werkgeversreview Software Engineer bij Connected

4,0
1 dec 2016
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I've been working at Connected Lab for about a year now. I can say that I've learned a lot since I've joined Connected Lab. The opportunity to see the problems in different business domains through our clients is a great experience. As an engineer I've gotten to learn various skills in both mobile and web development and it's really helped me round out as an engineer. The culture is nice and the people are great to work with. The company does a great job of building a very community oriented atmosphere with things like Demos and Socials. There is a lot of transparency within the company and Mike (our CEO) does a great job of sharing strategic initiatives with the company weekly.

Minpunten

- There is a strict 9-6 policy which I really don't like. - Feels like there is lack of autonomy in how we can do things (mandatory pair programming, 9-6 strict working hours). Sometimes this can feel very restricting at work. - Some of our clients are very dull to work with in that the work we are assigned to do is very mundane and it feels like the developers were put on for staff augmentation. - Not as much work in the connected software space as I expected. Hopefully this changes soon. - Compensation is not as high but this is expected since the company is bootstrapped.

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Thanks so much for taking the time to write such a thoughtful review. It means a lot to me that you’re learning and growing at Connected. It’s my priority that all engineers are engaged and challenged and that they are able to enjoy the office culture. I’m particularly happy to see you highlight the transparency within the company. We are unique as a “tech company” in terms of our engineering practices and our 9 to 6 office hours. We believe our engineering practices (including pair programming) result in better quality, a more sustainable pace, and an extremely collaborative engineering culture. We would love to talk more about this if you have some ideas for improvement! Our office hours are designed so that we can spend focused time building better products together and eliminate the overtime work that occurs in rapidly growing companies like ours. We are flexible for team members to attend appointments and commitments as we value life outside of work. Let’s chat if you have new ideas on how we can ensure a sustainable pace and collaborative culture across all our teams. Connected is focused on both Innovation and Delivery projects for a very important reason: we must do both if we hope to be great at either one. Along the same lines, we believe that individuals at Connected must get experience doing both if they hope to be great at either one. It’s this end-to-end experience that separates us (and our team) from other dev-only or creative-only firms in the marketplace. I think we should take pride in strong delivery since most software projects fail and we’re in a small minority of companies that have such a high success rate. All of this said, if you prefer more innovation-focused projects, come let Damian or me know. We’d be happy to focus some more of your time on innovation-focused work :) Thanks again for your very detailed and constructive review!

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