Absorb Software reviews

Developers and testers are demoralized and ignored by out of touch by management. Team members are over-worked and pressured to meet unreasonable deadlines. They get criticized for the slightest mistake. Everyone looks miserable and depressed all day. Many developers, QAs, and team leads have either left or actively looking for opportunities to jump ship. Many empty promises have been made to fix things. Nothing ever changes. No one trusts the management anymore. The development team's management are all inexperienced, disorganized people with no clear vision and strategy. They are out of touch with the realities on the team and each is more interested to add more people under his or her supervision. They don't listen to anyone on the team unless the few dev/QA/team lead who is personally close to them. Anyone who dares to speak up faces repercussions. There is a culture of fear within the team. If you become a target of management, they will find a mistake and exploit it to isolate you or force you out.

Absorb in Calgary used to be a fun place to work at until a year ago, that is not the case anymore. The product development team grew too fast. Management introduced new changes or policies every few weeks. They stopped listening to developers' concerns. They tell us that leadership will listen to your concerns but that is just lip service. As a team lead I try to approach the director to address some issues brought to me. Nothing ever happens, often things get worse for the person. They get labelled as complainer. As a result there is a very high turnover at Absorb. Many left in 2018 including the dev manager and several team leads. Recently there was a negative review on Glassdoor. Instead of looking into the issue the leadership got frustrated and asked employees to go on Glassdoor and write positive reviews. I don't recommend working at Absorb. Things are messy. Don't waste your time.