Terrible Engineering Culture - Senior Software Engineer Certara Employee Review

1.0
Oct 23, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Good work-life balance - rarely worked overtime. - Interesting domain and problems to work on. - Skilled, albeit small and understaffed, DevOps teams.

Cons

- Time tracking of tasks to-the-minute. Lunches must be logged. Depending on your client, may have to log hours twice. - Constant fires to be put out each day. Client requests aren't filtered and each is an emergency. - Lack of prioritization, roadmapping, long term planning. - No insulation from stakeholders, who often disagree on product direction. - Enterprise sales driven development lead to the production of vaporware - software is shipped in an unfinished state. - Compensation lags significantly behind market.

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5.0
Sep 13, 2024
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Pros

Good set of developers to work with and learn from.

Cons

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3.0
Apr 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity for learning within the organization

Cons

Lots of work, promotion is by seniority, not by performance. No transparency in salary and bonus structure. Many good and competent employees have left.

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