Heaven for some, hell for others - Software Engineer Articulate Global Employee Review

Feel free to take everything I say with a big grain of salt: I was only at Articulate for about 3 months. I recognized very quickly that this was absolutely not my kind of job or culture. I found work with a local engineering firm where I am a far better fit. I was drawn to remote work with visions dancing in my head of being able to dig into problems with absolutely no distractions...the exact opposite is true at Articulate. 90% of my days were all-day pair-programming sessions: 8-hour long conversations while coding. As an introvert, this made for stressful days compounded by the embarrassment that comes from the fact that I tend to make very stupid mistakes when someone is constantly looking over my shoulder. They have a very, "we've always done it this way, so we keep doing it this way" type of philosophy. Expect to learn to do things exactly their way and adhere to an extremely strict coding style. You won't spend any time making your code more efficient or optimizing anything. You will, however, spend a lot of time renaming variables, changing the order in which they're passed into functions, making sure there isn't extra white space at the end of a line (yes, seriously), and trying to figure out what certain lines/functions do since no comments are allowed (yes, seriously again). There is absolutely no room for creativity or problem solving. Once you've mastered doing things in their style, your entire job will be tweaking GUIs, moving interfaces around, and an endless loop of copy -> paste -> slight modification. I had never understood the term "code monkey" before I worked here.