Pros
Fjorge has a really cool employee culture. It’s a place to go if you’d like to make some actual, real life friends, and learn a lot in a little time. Employees are supportive of one another, on a career level but also as individuals. I sincerely hope that never changes. The work is diverse, interesting, and complicated. I really enjoy the work itself.
Cons
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.
