Buildertrend Applications Developer reviews

2.1

2% would recommend to a friend

(11 total reviews)
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Dan Houghton

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3% positive business outlook

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2.0
Feb 8, 2020
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Pros

Work life balance. This is genuinely great at Buildertrend! People are required to be in the office for 9 hours straight, and almost everyone leaves work right when they hit those 9 hours. Lots of "fun" perks (video games, free beer, etc). Your mileage may vary depending on how interested you are in this stuff. Modernizing tech stack - the company has prioritized converting from Web Forms to React in 2020, this will definitely pay off going forward.

Cons

The company seems to optimize around the convenience of a few long-tenured developers at the expense of everyone else. A couple examples: 1. To keep valued developers from having to investigate bug reports, they conscript new developers for 6-12 month stints on "triage". While on triage, developers aren't allowed to do any development (and then get docked in evals for a lack of big accomplishments). 2. Their favorite developers were still unhappy about being asked to develop fixes to bugs they introduced, so Buildertrend also established a "code health" team that gets to spend all of their day writing bug fixes for other peoples errors. This team is not allowed to talk to the developers who introduced these bugs, because Buildertrend doesn't want to "distract" their preferred devs. Poor career development - many developers have languished for several years without receiving promotions, even while receiving exclusively positive feedback from managers. It's unsurprising that as a result, lots of devs have checked out and spend half their day playing video games or watching YouTube. Buildertrend does a very poor job of motivating and incentivizing talented engineers. Only a select handful of devs are allowed to perform code reviews. These devs get overburdened and start auto-approving pull requests, ruining our code quality. Below average pay for Omaha (thus VERY below average pay by national standards).

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Buildertrend Response
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Hello! We deeply appreciate your feedback, because it pushes us to do better. Our employees are encouraged to provide feedback through surveys, frequent check-ins and meetings with leaders. After all, we get our best ideas from our people. Based on employee feedback, we recently introduced a work-from-home policy and improved our personal day offerings to further ensure work-life balance. We are proud to have one of the most skilled Engineering teams in the Midwest. Because of our engineers, we’re able to improve our platform at an astronomical rate. But with every improvement comes the possibility of a bug that negatively impacts our customers. Our bug impact has decreased significantly over the past two years, all thanks to the Triage team. This dedicated team also gives entry-level developers the opportunity to grow their skills during their three month rotation. Buildertrend is not a place where you have to wait your turn to advance. In the past 18 months, 38% of employees have earned promotions in the Engineering division. As one of the fastest-growing companies in Omaha, new positions, roles and opportunities are constantly being created. We’re proud to be one of Omaha’s Best Places to Work, and we’ll always strive to do better. Thank you again for your feedback.
5.0
Aug 2, 2018
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Pros

Great people to work with Work life balance is great! Lots of room for growth Fast paced environment This is a great place to work and grow in my career and management has been great in supporting and helping me get to where I want to be.

Cons

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