Fjorge Software DeveloperII reviews

Time tracking is exhausting. You are expected to run timers for each task, stop tasks if you’re too close to a client’s end of plan hours, and request more hours if you run up on the end of a plan. In some clients’ cases, there are only a few hours in a plan, which leads to very awkward calls. No day goes by without at least two meetings. These are seen as a positive at Fjorge and I partially agree, since they keep you on track, but you can expect never to truly flow at work. Finally, and most disturbingly, management gaslights frequently. This is a big problem and the reason so many have moved to other positions recently. “This is an open discussion” really means “this is a space for education and a pretense of hearing your concerns.” One employee, after leaving, and posting a negative review of Fjorge on Glassdoor, was shamed within the company Slack channel afterward, and we came to learn that one manager confronted him about his review after his departure. TLDR great culture but honestly frightening management.

Project managers are overworked and there should be more of them, however, I think the company is making greater strides to improve on this. Clients can oftentimes get needy and in some cases very rude, causing situations that become high pressure and high stress. It can get very difficult to manage the amount of client requests and internal work, causing missed deadlines on both sides.