An average company on every measure - Senior Software Engineer Digia Employee Review

3.0
Sep 5, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are decent or at least roughly equal to what similar size companies are offering. The tribes and open clubs are nice extra to share info and interests. Work-life balance is okay, I've never had issues booking vacation time, or taking random days off for personal reasons. The projects might be pro or a con, depending on what you land on, you might be working with super interesting cutting edge stuff, or you might find yourself shoveling ton of salt with a 25 year old spoon with a mountain of tech debt looming over your head. The salary is decent and honest instead of the current trend of paying half and the extra is performance based which seems to gain attraction elsewhere. No internal stock purchasing options though.

Cons

Internal tools are really bad, and you cannot do anything about them as it's been decided at higher level that these are what we use. They are slow and painful to use. A lot of the bad managers were kicked off to QT when the companies split, but seems like new seat-fillers have been popping up here and there. Culture and values are advertised as important but they don't actually matter at all in day-to-day work. Bad security practices? Nah, we're not paid to fix that. There is an attempt to provide internal career paths if you want to grow career-wise, but the implementation is a joke and doesn't really work. If you want to change your project, you're stuck browsing the internal job board, which shows the same 5 jobs for 11 months in a row.

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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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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)

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