My review was removed before for being completely honest about the company and for listing all the negatives about it, and I'll keep posting it again if it gets removed until it remains here.
This review is genuine unlike many other reviews here which I believe (to the extent of my knowledge) are fake. I have worked for several years in this company, and this is just my own opinion and my own experience, you should do your own research.
This is why I left the company:
1. Below average pay. Ask around and look for your self. They introduced a new payscale to make it seem as if they solved this problem, but it only made things worse.
2. Their use of tracking software which is a big fat red flag. Many companies have some kind of remote working option, but they have other effective methods to make sure that the work is done. The tracking software captures anything you do and type and takes random screenshots.
3. The company is full of bad toxic managers. They have a big ego, and don't like to be corrected. They have poor resource and time management skills. You will not see this from the start but after working for several months you will gradually feel the pressure.
4. Unethical practices from product managers. They lie to their customers that an impossible feature is possible to implement and then you will have to make this lie come true whatever it takes. These managers also set the worst deadlines just to please their customers. Again, you are the one responsible to make it work somehow.
5. You are the weakest person in the company's hierarchy. Everyone will put the blame on you if anything bad happens. If some manager didn't do his job correctly, then you are the scapegoat. If you didn't meet an unrealistic deadline, then you are the one not working hard enough. Everyone is putting pressure on you.
6. Worst work-life balance. I'm a human being not a robot. I need to rest in order to function properly. In ProgressSoft's eyes, you don't need rest. You will work insane hours in order to meet the deadlines. You will also have to work in the weekends in order to catch up. If you only do the 8 hours/work day then you will be seen as a lazy person and you will get a bad performance review.
7. Personally, I started to develop psychological problems from the work stress and the pressure from the managers. I had to quit to save myself from this.
8. No single person can possibly know every detail about every project in the company. The new CTO thinks otherwise and wants to voice his opinion on everything. He applies toxic practices to evaluate employees such as looking at the number of their merge requests and other Git metrics. In that case I can just make a separate merge request for each function I write just to look productive.
9. They give false promises. For example, they will promise you a good salary raise if you do 1 2 3 but in reality after doing 1 2 3 you might not get any raise or a very small one.
10. If you complain about any problem, then you will be seen as a problem because other people are not complaining. Not because there are no problems but because they are afraid to loose their jobs.
11. You are expected to be a mythical being. You will do the work of many people. Front-End, Back-End, DevOps, AI, Mobile Development, Testing, etc.
12. You need to be on-call during the weekends and holidays if anything bad happens (more pressure). You will not be able to have a peace of mind during Eid for example, because you will be constantly thinking about work and watching your emails.
13. No flexible hours and only 14 PTO per year. Many other companies are offering 21 days of vacation per year but not at ProgressSoft. Good luck taking them! They introduced a policy that if you didn't take all of the 14 days, then you have the next year to take them before they are invalid. And no you don't get compensated for them if you take them the next year, and guess what! you will not be able to take them all!
14. No overtime for the additional hours you will work unless you ask, and then they will start counting activity time on the tracking software instead of connectivity time. That means if you connect at 8:00 AM and work till 5:00 PM with 1 hour of break, and the tracking software only counts 7 hours, then you will not receive overtime unless you're tracking software counts after 8 hours, that means you work for 1 additional hour without pay.
