Avoid like the plague - Senior Software Engineer Instructure Employee Review

1.0
Mar 2, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

High salary. That pretty much sums it up.

Cons

They lie to you in the interview. They advertised themselves as "The Kotlin company", yet they have millions of lines of Ruby legacy you have to work on. No one tells this to you in the interview. This is especially bad in Hungary since there is no market for Ruby. Every second you spend at this company is a waste of time. The management is horrendous. There is no vision for the company. There is a WTF for every day of every month. Just to name a few: - One of my colleagues received their salary in USD instead of HUF. The currency was messed up but the number was the same. (They received 300x the amount) - They decided to ditch a monitoring software for another overnight and we were flying blind for 2 weeks - We were not able to create a Git repo for weeks because of a wrong job title in the system The list goes on. On the other hand, if you like kafkaesque situations and work environments give it a try, you'll have fun.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Very nice co-workers Benefits are at least average Work life balance is ok, flexible time off and decent holidays Don’t have to work that hard, great place to retire Focused on AI though the foundations for it aren’t there - as if we’re trying to check the box for a board

Cons

Pretty much a start up with terrible systems and processes Little to no investment in any supporting functions rooted in the TB days of prioritizing margin Cross-functional work is disorganized with horrible change management Complacency across the board. Seems like the old people are just waiting for their equity to vest, doing the absolute bare minimum Clearly an edtech company which feels a lot like what the government must be like Atrocious decision making Senior leaders care more about politics and their own egos than making the company better. Like everyone has an agenda I cannot imagine worse systems setup or data

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