Good for self development. Dull HQ - Software Engineer Volvo Cars Employee Review

4.0
Jul 29, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Everything shifting to Agile and therefore things are moving a lot faster Teams are having more and more autonomy to build products 2. You manage your own time. 3. Easy to change jobs within the company. 4. Management encourages to build competence (pays for courses, books and provides rewards for passing courses)

Cons

1. Culture discourages working from home 2. Hard to increase salary while under contract. 3. Architects have way too much control over the day to day work and implementations of the software developers. 4. Overtime requests are quite common (once to twice a year). 5. Not much fun or perks at the office 6. Office space and area (Torslanda) is boring and too far from the city

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Cons

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Cons

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