RigUp reviews

Mid-level software engineers are hired and branded as senior engineers. Senior/staff engineers are virtually non-existent so architecture/holistic planning is left to the inexperienced engineer who yells the loudest. Because of this, the tech stack underwent several half-baked paradigm shifts, each one leaving the app a little more chaotic than the last. The c-level execs are just as inexperienced as their engineers; they provide little guidance and have done little to improve the state of engineering org as a whole. RigUp was once a quaint shop full of potential; however, their large budget and many hiring blitzes turned a promising org into a dump of less-than-qualified employees repeatedly making decisions that do more harm than good. If you enjoy writing quality, well tested code, working on a team with any semblance of a defined process, having test plans, having release plans, having metrics on how the product is used..I'd recommend looking elsewhere. If you enjoy pushing code to prod asap, triaging easily preventable bugs, frequent on-call rotations, sparse requirements documents, skipping test coverage, and ignoring common-sense best practices..RigUp might be a good fit. If you do interview with the company, I'd encourage you to inquire about what percentage of core business functions are handled in the RigUp application vs. some other process.

Let's be real here. Everyone that has worked or interviewed at this company has been led to believe that this is a tech company. It is not, it is a staffing agency that has outgrown its platform. This is not a dig at the engineering team which I know has raised concerns and has been vocal about the issues with the platform. The acquisitions in recent months have only contributed to this problem with the majority of the workforce (referred to as units) now off the platform. This manual workflow has created critical operating issues for RigUp. The RigUp stance of "we will deal with it later" resulted in a company wide meeting asking its employees to volunteer their free time to resolve these issues. RigUp raised 300M in the last year but somehow was unable to keep a fourth of its workforce. This goes to show that the company does not care about its employees.