Ascent Reviews

- fingerprint scanning on entry and exit of building and an internal application where each employee one must login time spent on each task to the minute everyday - camera in the canteen only and some colleagues were complaining of management tracking the time they take everyday to have coffee - 'idle chat' with fellow colleagues is considered a waste of time even if for a few minutes - toilet visits are to be kept to a minimum, especially after the break due to management thinking that these are a waste of time - The amount of internal Skype chats is tracked - infrastructure needs taking care of - no ventilation mechanism in the office results in unhealthy rates of carbon dioxide

Probation lasts 1 year rather than 6 months. Upper management seems there to do the CTO's bidding rather than actively take bigger decisions themselves. Micromanagement so intense that CTO had/has final say over something completely unrelated like marketing material. CTO acts and takes decisions as though the entire company is trying to screw him over, which given his treatment of them is probably true. Culture of fear pervades the company. Time-tracking is very strict (despite what they tell you), for example by 1.31pm (break ends at 1.30pm) the canteen would be empty. No attention whatsoever to technical quality and even mid-term planning. Office politics rule supreme. Do not expect to build a career without "agreeing fervently" with superiors.