Two Barrels Software Developer reviews

3.6

49% would recommend to a friend

(13 total reviews)

63% positive business outlook

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13 reviews
5.0
Oct 13, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Fast-paced while not being too stressful - Growing like crazy, exciting future for the company - Variety of projects and things to work on - Awesome easy-to-get-along-with coworkers

Cons

- Has some legacy codebases/tech stacks - Such rapid growth can sometimes come with growing pains

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Two Barrels Response
2y
We appreciate you taking the time to write a review! It sounds like you are enjoying your time here and we're so glad! We have definitely experienced our fair share of growing pains and we're glad to be heading in the right direction to work through them as a team.
5.0
Oct 6, 2023

Great community and work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The other engineers and coworkers at Two Barrels are really great to work alongside. Everyone has a great attitude and is super helpful. The tickets and projects we can work on are really diverse, which I really enjoy. Benefits are nice.

Cons

Sometimes there can be a disconnect between in office events and remote workers - but it can be pretty difficult to organize online events that aren't awkward or silent so not a big deal.

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Two Barrels Response
2y
Hey! Thanks for writing a review - the work you do is important and it's important that you enjoy what you do, so we're glad it's a good fit! Employee engagement matters to us so we're going to keep on trying to make events better for our remote employees. Thanks for your feedback.
2.0
Aug 19, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary is above average for the area

Cons

Benefits are very poor for a salaried positions. Mainly, lack of paid holidays, lack of included Short Term/Long Term disability, health insurance with premiums paid is lackluster forcing employees to pay more for decent health insurance. Software managers often exaggerates success of teams to Business and lies about success of projects in order to stay in good standing with Business. Managers don't let developers speak with Business in order to perpetuate the lies and enforce lack of transparency. Software team is very isolated and doesn't follow the same team building, communication, and inclusiveness that the rest of the company promotes. Promotion structure, job clarity, and expectations are not established and unclear.

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Two Barrels Response
2y
We’re pretty proud of our comprehensive benefits, and we’re sorry you felt differently. Our health insurance is really affordable (free!) for the employee. You’re right that you can opt in to a more extensive coverage plan and that is an additional $55/month. That additional premium can be covered by our $100/month healthcare allowance. Additional opt-in coverages include hospital indemnity, short-term disability, etc. We know our PTO package is unique as we recognize that not everyone celebrates the same holidays, so we didn’t previously have set “company holidays.” We got a lot of feedback and listened, and this year implemented 4 company holidays—on top of existing PTO. We are always working on educating our employees on all their available benefits, especially as they continue to expand. Our software team has levels for promotion opportunities that are clearly defined. Within the first week of onboarding, every employee has an expectations conversation with their manager. That is followed by 3 talent alignment conversations a year, where a manager checks in on those expectations. Those conversations are 2-way streets for employees to bring up their concerns as well. We seek software managers with coding experience, rather than solely management experience, to better ensure those running software really understand software and can translate those ideas to leadership. Our teams are currently built around products, that includes a variety of departments such as: software, product, marketing, and frontend. We encourage everyone to work together as a team on a singular goal to make the product better. Everyone on the team is encouraged to speak up and bring their ideas to the table to help make the product better. You can be an engineer and give design feedback, or be a designer and bring up ideas for product changes. Your perception that software management is not communicating achievements accurately is concerning and something we’ll look into. Interesting idea to do wellness checks outside of your department – something for us to consider!
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