AppDirect Reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(392 total reviews)
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Nicolas Desmarais

77% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

AppDirect has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 392 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AppDirect employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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392 reviews
1.0
Jan 24, 2017

SW Engineer

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Pros

Great office Fun and friendly atmosphere Talented experienced engineers Nice swags

Cons

Engineering organization and practices are archaic and counterproductive. Non debatable top-to-bottom approach that demotivates/frustrates the entire organization and shirks individuals from their responsibilities as SW engineers. SW design decisions are taken by a small group of engineers in CEO's inner circle who have little to no experience/interest in building quality and scalable SW platforms. Focus is on finding the fastest short term path and ignore long term effects. This is how you get rewards. Quality of the code base is beyond any improvement and repairable state. Senior Management prefers to falsify metrics and pretend things are improving. I admire those few engineers who keep on trying to improve things in spite of the vast majority who just deliver crap to meet impossible deadlines, just happy to get to their next big pay check. Not the way to build a successful organization/product.

2.0
Jan 17, 2017
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Pros

- the brightest, exceptionally high-skilled and talented software engineers - entertaining and fun social events, including wine club and game nights - best in class foosball table (and players, huh) - pretty convenient location in beautiful Old Port area - huge potential to become the best place to work but ....

Cons

- one guy to rule them all: the decision making process is terrible - top to bottom style: no one listens for engineers and take into account their opinions - tech debt stacks for ages: the imposed culture of making shortcuts and fix them later (== never) - no product thinking: the platform is enourmous pile of ad-hoc customizations - bug fixing makes 90% of your day

1.0
Jun 23, 2018

yes-man's heaven innovator's hell

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1. competitive salary 2. flexible working hours

Cons

1. red tape everywhere 2. top down management 3. don't care about people at all 4. constantly management structure change 5. no technical people in the leadership team as a result, many decisions are tedious 6. team has no autonomy at all

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