It is the most mismanaged, micro-managed environment I've ever been in. If it wasn't destroying the careers of some really great people, it'd be laughable. There is a culture of distrust and destruction that is driven by the senior management team. The physical environment is terrible. The office environment is dirty and staff are crammed into 4-foot wide workspaces. There are ~60 employees. Only one woman, who happens to be the co-owner. You are lied to.. from your very first interview. About the company. About the culture. About the work you will do. About everything.
These lies continue while you work there. Eventually you will be pitted against your colleagues in a crazy he-said-he-said world in which nobody really said anything but the management team is out to get you, or them, and so makes a bunch of stuff up. After you work there awhile you kind of get used to it, in a sick Stockholm-syndrome kind of way. Its only when you get out and look back in that you realize how absolutely crazy it was to work there. There are questionable time and billing practices. There are unreasonable, unjustified, and frankly unbearable rules and regulations about how you must conduct yourself while on the job. There is no room for professional growth: You are either a developer, or a project manager/developer. Getting "promoted" to PM gets you more responsibility and eventually leads to your systematic destruction, not more compensation. It is an unquestionably toxic environment that should be avoided at all costs.
