Project Lead The Way Applications Developer reviews

Be careful, all of the great reviews on here are from people that work in the various departments that get free trips to Hawaii. Unfortunately, you will not be part of those teams. IT has lost the majority of their best technical talent for a reason - this place is more concerned about outsourcing your job than they are with actually keeping you busy. Any promises that outsourcing is over is just temporary until they have more funds. Just look at the CTO's background on LinkedIn. Her best skill is outsourcing. The Business Analyst team doesn't actually gather requirements for the development team - they gather requirements for themselves so that they can do Salesforce configuration. They will occasionally give you Salesforce development work at the last minute and expect you to work 14 hour days to get it done by their deadline. Any project that succeeds is credited to the Business Analyst team. Any project that fails is immediately blamed on the Development team.

Developers are treated simply as instruments to get a job done. When opinions are offered they are listened to and promptly ignored. When strong concerns were voiced about unrealistic project timelines we were ignored. This came after I was hired and told that if a project deadline is unrealistic it gets moved. This does not happen. Additionally when other departments and teams have trouble meeting their deadlines related to development projects the development team consistently gets blamed for projects being behind schedule. The environment is full of people trying to climb the ladder without regard for who they step on. Additionally there is little to no opportunity for advancement. In my time there I never saw a single developer receive a promotion even though I was told that there was a built in promotion system. We were routinely told that there wasn't enough money to hire additional developers as well even though other teams were constantly growing and numerous people around the company received regular promotions and raises. The bottom line is developers at PLTW are sorely underpaid for the work they do, and they are shown little to no respect for their expertise and abilities. If you have a better or comparable option take it.