Lame - Software Engineer Digia Employee Review

1.0
Apr 23, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Supporting Qt Some friendly people there

Cons

Employee rotation is very high. Treats employees like slaves (low salaries, no right to speak up, insignificant career growth) Randomly fires employees in times of "crisis" and now pretends everything is ok and is a stable place to work for the next 5 years under the Qt flag. Hires a lot of people just to sell them to customers, that's mostly in the past 10 years how they got so much money to buy Qt. Clueless managers/directors earning all the money. No real mission or clear business objectives and long term vision, besides basic exploitation of skilled CS and Engineers.

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1.0
Jun 4, 2014
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Pros

Excellent 401k matching (if you stick around long enough for it to vest) Employer-paid benefits Work with a highly regarded application framework (Qt)

Cons

Crappy work-life balance benefits, very uneven (EU gets 5 weeks of time off, USA gets 2 weeks) Not a team-oriented environment. USA (sales) vs EU (engineering) Sucky IT policies (bordering on paranoid) Cheap on salary. Big split in corporate culture: open vs closed source. Business mission flawed. Work office was often empty, very little team cohesion, lots of passive-aggressive behavior by management and colleagues. Outsourced HR and IT

4
2.0
Dec 21, 2012
Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

5 weeks of vacation (European company benefits) Good medical insurance options Great product

Cons

clueless managers too much politics and high school-clique culture Too much Estrogen in the air No real mission or clear business objectives and long term vision Free product is so good few customers wants to pay for the supported version (like trying to sell extended warranty to Honda owners)

5
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