Optimal Blue reviews

Communication between teams is very poor, communication between levels of management is disjointed. Recently acquired, prompting many senior employees to leave. Managers are struggling to find fair & accurate performance metrics. Integrating remote employees into tech teams is also a major struggle.

-Very outdated tech stack (WebForms, VB.NET) -Convoluted codebase. Classes are ridiculously long and are riddled with repetition and poor design. People are more likely to tack on another method that duplicated functionality found somewhere else than to actually consider standard OOP patterns. Except for a small handful, no one cares about code quality, testability, or maintenance. -Complete disregard for industry standards in favor of poor company-wide practices. -Company virtually refuses to adopt new technologies because of poisonous "If it's not broken, don't fix it" mentality. This does not work in tech. -Poor documentation and training. New employees face a "sink or swim" on-boarding process. Most sink due to the abysmal condition of the codebase. -The design of the legacy product is so counterintuitive that new clients have to undergo an extensive training just to get around the system for basic functionality. Features are added without much consideration for how it will impact the user experience. You can definitely tell that the product was "designed by engineers." If you work here for an extended period, unless you are mindful, you will pick up terrible code practices that are not applicable anywhere else. Your skills will atrophy. Beware.