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G/O Digital

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Fast-paced software development in an SEO project - Senior Software Developer G/O Digital Employee Review

2.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Close-knit group, good team chemistry, going out to lunch together every day, no legacy technologies in use, current Microsoft development products, great computers to develop with

Cons

Close quarters work area with no windows and when one person gets sick the whole team gets sick. Very high turnover rate where either developers get sick the moment they see the complete mess that is their code-base (several stories of new hires resigning before their first day was done) or get frustrated with the lack of documentation/structure, or clash with management. In my time working there, 6 developers have quit (from a development team that numbers around 12 to 14 people). So committed to 9-day sprints that important corners get cut and constructive criticism trends to get trivialized during the sprint retrospectives (a popular quote they've grown fond of is from LinkedIn founder/CEO "first get it out and then get it right" and perfectly reasonable requests for up-front business requirements, descriptions of tasks, or for the need to have a solid design phase prior to embarking on complicated coding tasks all got shot down). Cowboy-coding at its finest: severely unstructured with no enforcement of coding standards or documentation, environment is extremely hostile to Entity Framework and the database administration department can be a bit anti-C# at times (seeing it as more of a pass-through between the Javascript framework implementing the MVC pattern and the database side implementing all of the business logic), not a good environment at all for C# development. An awkward mix of some technologies such as AngularJS front-end with ASP.NET server-side (they committed to it for so long they've accumulated a massive code-base, but are now deciding to rewrite in traditional ASP MVC with razor views but will probably lure an ASP MVC developer in the door without telling them they'll have to extract everything from a massive Angular code base) Management can be a tad aloof, passive aggressive, and unwilling to give out encouragement on a job well done.

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5.0
Nov 22, 2021
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Pros

They were a great team of people to work with.

Cons

The company was closed and employees were laid off with little compensation or time.

3.0
Mar 20, 2025
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Cons

Unorganized management Lack of expectation setting between AMs and Clients Poor sales had to be executed on

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