Absorb Software reviews

The development team is structured in a way that developers (or quality assurance analysts) do not have much say about design, processes, and work flow. Everything is decided by one or two people higher up and enforced through business analysts. Your ideas and suggestions as a developer doesn't matter. So Absorb is not a fit if you are looking for a place where you can be innovative, think critically, and work in a collaborative manner. However, it is an ok place if you are willing to do as told without daring to question it. Scrum process was introduced this year in the development team which was supposed to help all team members work collaboratively. Unfortunately the new processes are not really followed. The business analysts still decide everything, dismisses and/or mocks other team members' ideas when feeling insecure. They are not willing to give up any control as part of new process and will do anything to push out critical thinkers and label them as not being team players. All of this has created a very tense and toxic work environment.

There are some very controlling long tenure leads/middle management who seem to be so afraid of losing control as the result of new development processes introduced. This causes progress to be seriously inhibited. This has generated somewhat of a toxic and frustrating work environment as of late. Emotions run high and so does reversion of the status quo.