Internet Services Developer - Internet Services Developer Netcraft Employee Review

2.0
Jan 7, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible working hours (nobody minds if you come in for lunch and then stay late). Relaxed work environment - everybody is friendly and helpful. Bath is a great place to live.

Cons

Very flat management structure - you'll likely be working directly under the CEO. Management is very poor - you'll sometimes have nothing to do for weeks or months at a time. Management also frequently makes short-sighted decisions - favouring short-term payoffs over long-term maintainability. Most of the employees are now full-time fixing short-term issues and bugs that could have been prevented with proper planning. Management refuses to upgrade old systems that are well beyond the end of their product lifecycles. CVS, MySQL 4.0, FreeBSD 4.0 are still in use. The engineers usually work directly on live systems - there is no testing or QA process in place for code before it is deployed.

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Cons

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Netcraft Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. You sum things up very succinctly with those 5 words! There have indeed been some big changes across the business, but we try to maintain our agility and speed where we can, but it isn't always easy. I hope you took the opportunity to share your views during our engagement survey in the last few weeks. Either way, we are always open to getting feedback so if you have anything else you wish to share, or ideas to keep some pace and agility, or anything else for that matter, you can speak to your leadership team member, or drop us an email at Peopleteam@netcraft.com
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Jul 17, 2023
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Pros

Great leadership, smart people, sustainable work

Cons

Can be stressful sometimes during client demand

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