DevFactory Reviews

3.5

66% would recommend to a friend

(34 total reviews)

63% positive business outlook

DevFactory has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DevFactory 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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34 reviews
5.0
Dec 15, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Very innovative, Great team work, Work from Home, Great salary, Only good performers on your team. I loved working here, I learnt a ton in a very short time period, I am the type of person that likes to be challenged and given aggressive goals. The culture here is that everyone succeeds as a team, evryone has the same clear cut expectations and there are regular checkins and reviews of the process what is working, is not, and they are very open to change and progress to improve. It is not always an easy job, but it keeps things exciting. Plus you can entirely work your own hours as long as you get you tasks done within the timeline. I often work for a few hours in the morning and take a break to do what I want in the afternoon and work the rest in the evening, or take half a day off and make it up on the weekend.

Cons

some pressure, can be learning curve, high expectations. One of the things I love about this company is that I am on a team with a bunch of talented people who I can confidently pass a task to and know they will get it done. The downside of this for some people is that low performers don't last. You aren't expected to be perfect, but continuously not delivering and bad communication about why will not be accepted. If you are not a good performer or are a very slow learner, this company is probably not for you.

4.0
Jul 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Best practices in software industry like SCRUM, Build Processes, Code Reviews, Performance Matrix, flexible timings as far as you can commit 30+ hours pw.

Cons

The job comes with running a software that takes picture of your desktop current windows every 10 mins as well as detects keyboard and mouse movement to guess if you are not there or idol. So you have to be active all the time on the computer, even if you are thinking about an algorithm architecture or whatever, make sure to throw in few keys or move your mouse after couple of mins

1.0
Mar 20, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Compensation is not bad depending on where you live

Cons

- The company says that there's a lot of flexibility here because of the home based setup, but in reality this just looks good on paper. I tell you, it's even worse than a full time employment in a real company, in here they will force you to install a tracking software called "gTeam tracker", in which it monitors every bit of your privacy, it takes screenshot of your screen, mugshots of your face, the keystrokes your typing and the mouse activities (clicks, scroll, etc...) that you are doing in your remote terminal. They put rules on what is a valid screenshots/mugshots, etc... If you didn't meet that rule, even if you actually work, they will dispute the time-card uploaded by this tracker, and will not pay you for those hours worked. E.g. if it happened that you moved your head and the webcam took a mugshot, if it's not focused on your face, that one will be disputed. They treat you like a robot here. This is because of their philosophy of a "software factory" which is the most ridiculous idea ever thought of. You can't implement a manufacturing strategy in software development because the work done here is not routine like in real manufacturing industries. In software development, it's all about output and brain works, so measuring every move of an employee is not at all an indication of productivity. It's very obvious that the executives in this company never developed/exposed to a single real software development in their entire life, probably they were manufacturing executives before. - Incompetent middle manager. My immediate manager is one of this. And when he feel threatened, he just get rid of his people. - They say there is no politics, but truth is there is. My manager is favoring one team mate who is his puppet, because this teammate is the only person he can control, he is also the less experienced among us that's why. He is the only one who believe the manager, and the manager is positioning him for promotion. If you are a threat you're a goner.

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