Datapath (UK) Reviews

Feedback is and must always be welcome, weather one likes it or not. So thanks for taking the time to offer them. I'm a bit saddened to read some of these comments as we're trying to be as welcoming as possible to discuss any conerns, and it would clearly be better to do so face to face at the company if possible. That said, here's afew comments relating to some of the feedback above. It's fair to say management, including myself, have had an eyeopener during the March-19 Lockdown in the UK (as I believe most companies have had a similar experience), as we quite forecfully had to change our working practices to make anyone that could work from home do so. Productivity is probably about the same, or at least not much different, although some things works better and some worse. I think it's also fair to say that Microsoft Teams and Zoom have been excellent tools that makes team cooperation work really well when everyone is participating on Teams and Zoom. That's not to say that it would work as well if 2/3 of a team is in the office and 1/3 is not. We will be a great deal more flexible on how the work is performed in the future, but it's not without an affort to develop effective practices to do so. In regards of software test comments, we've made a real effort to build a much more thorough test strategy over the past two years. Embedded testers have ben recruited for most development teams, and we've got a a few more to go. This effort has already paid off quite significantly. We're recruiting for a System Test Manager, and it's fair to say we've struggled to build the System Test team, but for more practical shorter term issues like recruitment, and there's abolsutely no lack of either ambition nort comitment to the task. The quality of our products is paramount to the business we're in, and should not be questioned. We had a unpleasant period of quality issues, a few years ago, quite well behind us today, and we certianly don't ever want to go there again. If there's one thing that scuppers product development schedules it's typically the unpredicatble nature of customer support and product improvements required to existing products to meet new and changing customer requirements. It's hard to comment on the more personal comments about "backstabbing" or "managers pushed aside for those with little knowledge" etc above, but I would want to be the first person to get the feedback preferably immediatly when and if they happen. I hope this addresses most of the feedback above.