Good ideals marred by bad management
Pros
Snack days. Salary is on par with the industry in Calgary. Benefits are fairly good with a few gaps. The company itself has some good ideals and seems to know what they want to do at a higher level but the development group is lead by poor managers.
Cons
You would think that a company that develops learning management software would be strong at training their employees but that is simply not the case here. Senior roles are almost exclusively filled by outside hires rather than providing training and guidance to existing staff to naturally move into those roles. Management can never give a clear picture of how one advances in the company; the idea of that even being a possibility seems to baffle them. Junior developers that have been here for years are still at the junior level because of a lack of guidance and will continue to languish unless they jump ship. Unless you're part of the elite circle of one manager's friends, your opinions count for nothing, you are treated as a second-rate citizen, and you are rarely given the chance to work on anything interesting. There is zero desire to fix broken parts of the product, instead choosing to leave half-finished implementations unfinished and either slap bandaids on any problems or tell customers that we won't bother to fix the issue. New development is often started with poor vision and understanding of what they hope to achieve resulting in either a failed product or one that is so feature-deprived that it's almost useless. Bonuses are laughable. Take highly-positive reviews with a grain of salt, especially if they're posted within 1 to 2 weeks of each other; when a bad review is posted, management often "encourages" people to review bomb the site to offset anything they don't like.
