a place for people who value more their private lives than salary and career options - Developer/Project Manager Digia Employee Review

3.0
Oct 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Relaxed and low stress working pace - flexible hours, especially when remote working - The term "nice" fits perfectly for colleagues. the atmosphere is comfy - Some of the colleagues are also very good at what they do -good place for juniors to get their basic experiences, before moving to competing companies -Dental extra benefit + nice extra insurance for private life that pretty much covers anything -top management know what they are trying to achieve and are good at it but...

Cons

-...but the middle management have lost their competitiveness and are just "working here". It feels like they lost the interest after transitioning from customer work to internal functions -Salaries have a lot of variation, if you negotiated your contract when in times of need (critical project lost its key dev) and got good starting level, good for you. But if you want to move forward from your position and get better compensation, good luck. your calls will be mostly for deaf ears (to the middle management). -not a place for the top performers -working devices are mediocre -a lot of variation in quality of colleagues professional skills, projects, processes and culture depending on what department you land on. the infamous "silos".

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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

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2.0
Dec 21, 2012
Anonymous employee
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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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