Hailo reviews

- light, non formal environment

Friendly, intelligent, passionate colleagues. I take issue with the reviewer who labelled everyone here "average". There is a wealth of talent here ranging from young, raw talent to seasoned, no nonsense veterans. Relaxed and improving working environment. I can only speak about the London office but the facilities (table tennis table, game consoles), equipment (Macbooks, thunderbolt displays) and provisions (free snacks, refreshments, beer etc) all contribute to a relaxed atmosphere. People who are complaining that this is just standard fodder should take a step back and reevaluate such first world problems. Lots of interesting technology to work with. We've taken a risk with our tech stack but it's something that looks like it will pay dividends. Yes, there's always pain when going with something new and relatively untried and we've taken a lot of flak for that in earlier reviews here. I bet those same people would have complained if we went with tried and tested Java, Oracle, Redhat stack. We've also managed to hire some great people directly *because* of the technology we've chosen so just for that I'd rate it a win. Work is chaotic at times but there's never a dull moment. We're never going to be perfect and at this early stage in the company's life we're going to get more things wrong than the more established companies but we're always learning and improving. Things are miles better than they were a year ago and this time next year they'll be much improved again. Bottom line is that the work has been very interesting and rewarding up until this point; there have been ups and downs but definitely far more ups than downs and hopefully many more ups to look forward to in the future. We know we're not perfect and we're always looking to improve. To put this into perspective this is a 3 year old company so of course there's rough edges. What encourages me the most is that we know there are things to improve and we're actively trying to address those things.