GoDaddy Software Engineer reviews

4.0

65% would recommend to a friend

(83 total reviews)
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Aman Bhutani

87% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Software Engineer employees have rated GoDaddy with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 83 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. GoDaddy is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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83 reviews
1.0
Apr 21, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good salary and benefits. good work life balance, in part coming from the poor project and time management, so you have lots of down time

Cons

1. They code like it is 1995. They do not use modern coding standards 2. They are very reactive to bad events, not pro-active in adopting technologies that avoid these events. 3. They have huge complex systems with code that "self documents" needless to say no one understands what is going on at all. 4. They adopt a standard for an old technology (e.g. SQL Server 2000) then fail to change the standards for newer technologies. 5. There is no project management or system design. There is simply a ticket system so you write code to the individual ticket with no other design

4.0
Jun 7, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Momentum - Go Daddy is a major player and continues to grow. Workload - No boredom here.

Cons

Workload - no rest here.

2.0
Jan 8, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is fundamentally decent, there are a lot of smart people who work there who try their best to make things better despite stupid management decisions. It is generally a fun place to work, even when the hours get long, you still manage to enjoy it for the most part.

Cons

Management are a bunch of yestards who way over promise to the execs. The result is the trench folk really feel the pressure and as a result, some pretty sloppy shortcuts are taken to meet purely arbitrary dates. There is no software development experience or expertise at the exec level, even though they all fancy themselves as some sort of Google competitor. The software development process is: Marketing dreams up random useless feature, Marketing picks arbitrary date regardless of work effort or scope, developers work to the bone to make it happen, date is missed due to lack of planning, customers get pissed because defects aren't fixed in lieu of aforementioned random useless feature, lather rinse repeat. Also, there is a very political inner circle that if you cross anyone (i.e. challenge the technical approach, or lack thereof) you will be dealt a heavy blow, often terminated.

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