Not well run - Software Developer Five Talent Employee Review

3.0
Jul 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The office is friendly, some staff are very knowledgeable, I like the owner

Cons

This company underpays and as a result, has attracted far from the best. There are a few people here who are very knowledgeable and undervalue how much they're worth. Most projects are sold at a loss putting all developers under pressure to deliver on an unrealistic deadline.

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5.0
Feb 26, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company encouraged continuous learning and education. Always provided anything you needed to move forward.

Cons

No cons at that time, I didn't go through the acquisition and can't speak for current practices but prior it was an amazing place to work.

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3.0
Oct 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Variety of projects. Management is very nice and seems like they want everyone to be happy and succeed. Free lunch and "tech talks" on Fridays.

Cons

Not a large emphasis on writing quality code. Accountable for 40 hours of billable time per week meaning breaks, lunch, tech discussions with co-workers, helping other co-workers, basically anytime you are not writing code it's coming out of your pocket. Which means that working over 40 hours a week is very common and basically required. On-boarding process is still getting fleshed out. Not a lot of discussion around best practices because everyone is focused on getting their code written under the estimated time.

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Five Talent Response
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Thank you for your feedback! We always welcome and encourage feedback and will strive to take your advice to improve Five Talent! We are especially troubled with your comment about quality of code. This is VERY important to us. Over a year ago we formalized our process for lead developers to do a code review of all code checked into a project. These lead developers have passed our internal review and have been taught our best practices and what to look for. This has helped increase our quality a lot! In addition to that we do keep our wiki up to date with best practices and suggestions for code improvement and encourage all employees to review and edit the wiki often. These changes as well as many others is apart of our effort to constantly improve quality but we would love more feedback and ideas! Yes, on-boarding process is still getting fleshed out. I don't think we will ever be stable with that process as it is an ongoing learning process that we continually try to improve! Regarding the 40 hours of billable time. I understand the confusion, we had this question brought up a few weeks ago. Our stance is that all full time employees work 40 hours a week but that does not mean they need to log 40 hours of billable time. In fact, many areas in our wiki as well as communication from our project managers emphasis that nobody will have 40 hours of billable time per week. We do not anticipate anyone to log their breaks as well. Quite often people have sub-40 hours logged per week. However, since this is brought up, we must not be doing a good job of communicating that, so thank you for bringing this to our attention! We will over communicate this in the future.
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