Their Vision, Their Box - Could be a better place to work - Software Engineer Vision-Box Employee Review

2.0
Dec 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Business area is very interesting. Good place to learn fast.

Cons

Project oriented company with short vision from management, huge management layer without knowledge and only oriented to delivery anything soon. Even the technical management layer is only focused on deliveries not in best practices or procedures. There is no clear strategy or it's not shared leading to empty management discourses, scary communication issues and wrong management decisions. Business area is very interesting but there is no space to improve. Most of the innovation was inherited from the past when environment was healthier. Knowledge is not yet valued and people are seen as easy replaceable resources creating retainability issues and consequently a disorganized product with serious quality issues. Typically employee's opinion is frequently ignored and the solution is mostly accepted when coming from external sources. Most knowledgeable people in the software team left cyclically creating huge knowledge gaps. Very complex new products with huge inertia without a clear direction since there is only few knowledgeable underused people left. Onboarding in software area is a disorganized process and the main goal is to expose the new resource and forge him/her on fire. Training is a myth. Traditionally, first days (before covid) you would need to assembly your own chair and with luck you would have an empty table. In covid time, work is mostly from home but the office is open and usually secure for occasional needs. Although, home office is not yet seen as the new normal due to the characteristic management/organization limitations.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Aug 10, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great vision, ambition to be a leader

Cons

No real product. Lack of trust. Pros Vision-Box is a very dynamic organization, growing fast. Very passionate and smart people. Young, fresh, informal, innovation environment. Very visionary people with great skills. Great innovation and business. Exciting industry and interesting products. Very flexible organization, quick to react to market and very business and customer-oriented. Good growth opportunities with new management functions appearing. Exciting place to actually create value, as there is a lot to do and much to create from scratch. Cons Very uninspiring, arrogant, autocratic leaders, squeezing the lemon until it's dry, never saying thank you, never apologizing, never committed to support your success (let alone well-being and happiness.). Not committed to strategy, as they thrive in confusing, misleading situations, where conflict reigns and employees are easily caught in traps. The employer is always to blame and is never good enough to meet the "goals". Disorganized, chaotic environment. No strategy, no tactics. very short term view. No culture of recognition and appreciation. No team work in most departments. Administration does not trust people. Loads of micro-management. Top-down approach to managament. Very autocratic. Your voice has no value. Nothing is ever good enough. If it's wrong, you are always to blame. Problems presist year after year, unsolved. All projects have high risks. Issues never antecipated. Problems grow into monsters and are remediated with pain and effort from some of the good guys. High performers are hardly ever recognized. Low performers dwell around the company, mostly chatting, and never receive negative feedback, are never fired and are never encouraged to re-engage with the company. Departmental silos with great innefficiencies, disfuncional governance.

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