Terrible - Software Engineer Booktopia Employee Review

1.0
Aug 14, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Celebrities promoting books drop by occasionally.

Cons

CTO out of his depth, extremely inexperienced, it was his first job out of university. He will claim any good ideas you present to him, that he likes, were his ideas and he has no idea about strategy, makes idiotic technical decisions, that he thinks are really clever. He is a perfect egotist, he works from home a lot himself but does not allow any of the team to work from home. They are forever telling that they are not "clock watchers" but in fact if you leave 5 minutes early they will let you know that they noticed you left 5 minutes early so it seems that really do "watch the clock" Very old fashioned, the code is a mess, the CTO has not strategy or ideas there is absolutely no reason to work here

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5.0
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Cons

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4.0
Oct 18, 2017
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Recommend
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Pros

Great people, friendly atmosphere, awesome CEO & COO. Booktopia has people working for it who really care about books and can teach you so much about the industry. There is always an opportunity to grow within your role. I really enjoyed my time there.

Cons

Lidcombe can tricky to get to if you live on the other side of town, but parking is provided.

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