Great company, awesome team - Dev Support Engineer Codefresh Employee Review

5.0
Apr 27, 2021
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Pros

Codefresh is an awesome place to work if you're comfortable working within a small team in a fast paced environment. The company pays very well and benefits are on par with many larger companies I've worked at (in some cases even better). They are very thoughtful about how they treat people, and the group events they plan are something I look forward to every time. During my six months here, we've done a virtual cooking class, wine tasting, origami lessons, and a whole lot more that I'm sure I'm forgetting. They also send out gift boxes periodically with company swag and treats. Remote companies often overlook this kind of stuff but Codefresh is really, really good at making people feel included and valued. The product is truly cutting edge, which can be a good thing and a bad thing. To focus on the good, I feel Codefresh genuinely is at the forefront of CI/CD technology and the engineers are brilliant. They are thoughtful about prioritizing new features, very quick to fix bugs, and they have a sincere interest in customer feedback, even when it's hard. This is clearly reflected in the business, and the amount of growth I saw during my time here was impressive. Leadership is excellent. I've had great conversations with folks from my direct manager all the way up to C-level and everyone is very easy to talk to and receptive to feedback. I always felt like my concerns were heard, and I think leadership has a really high level of awareness when it comes to things that need to change. My direct manager was really awesome about making sure that I was taking enough time off, checking the pulse of the team, and I really appreciated her ability to give honest feedback. I felt that leadership at every level really cares about the employees, not just as workers, but as people. On that note, the entire team is just a really good group of people to be around. Everyone is extremely willing to help and listen, and the group happy hours were always a lot of fun.

Cons

The main downside to working at Codefresh is the rapid pace, but I think this is very subjective. At times it is hard to know where to go for answers, and this is compounded by having teams on different sides of the world and on different schedules. To be clear, managers will absolutely get you the resources you need if you ask, but it can be hard to solve critical customer issues when almost the entire engineering department is offline for the night. Another con is the small team size, in some ways. On one hand, it's cool to work closely with a small group of people that you've grown to know. But as the company grows, the workload can be overwhelming at times. To expand on my comment about the product earlier - there are a lot of bugs. The developers do a great job fixing and responding to these, but instability can make it very hard to troubleshoot and assist customers. It's an extremely complex product, so learning that part of the business is a huge challenge. The cons to working at Codefresh don't apply to everyone equally of course. For me personally, this was not the type of environment where I could do my best work, but there are plenty of others who can thrive in these situations. If you are comfortable working in a small team on a rapidly evolving product, feel free to take these comments with a grain of salt - it's hard work, but I do think that Codefresh does everything they can to mitigate the difficulties and continuously improve their processes.

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
Jul 11, 2023
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Pros

Great innovation around containerization, kubernetes, docker, CI/CD and ability to show off the product at huge tradeshows like KubeCon. Community engagement with developer relations was very well-done from the beginning with fantastic content, great outbound content (podcast/video/events). Passion by the original 10-15 employees to provide a CI/CD solution that is proprietary while playing very nicely with open source communities of CNCF, HELM, Git, JMeter, etc.

Cons

Initial leadership team of CEO, CTO, CMO, CRO were not very good at management, engaging employees to build a great employee experience was severely lacking and a high-turnover existed until the CTO and CRO were replaced and Microsoft (M12) was able to push for senior executives (from Google) to join. The first set of employees had to fight for benefits, their stock options, basic things that simply should have been taken care of properly and it was an amateur business operation the first few years of it's existence, in 2022 is started making major shifts and now seems to be on track. It took way too many years to be enterprise-ready for enterprise companies, too many missing key features, too many workarounds and custom-steps in the technology stack were needed and too many customers churned and too many deals were lost. Again, this seems to have shifted drastically in 2022, especially now in 2023 and they are off to the races.

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