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Gleim Publications

Is this your company?

Not what was expected. - Software Developer Gleim Publications Employee Review

1.0
Apr 5, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Free Soda. -Cake Day. -Some of the managers seem genuinely nice and care about your well being mentally. -Benefits. -Ability to learn on the job because you will have to handle things yourself. -Please read cons however.-

Cons

-Expect a report to be written for every task completed throughout the day and how long it took you to complete it. -Talking to developers feel like talking to robots. Its only about programming code or work. Doesn't anyone watch sports or tv in general? You will get bored quick and fast. -If new, expect a huge dictionary of a in-house wiki to be read as "training" and to be crammed in a week. There is no assistance in training nor is it interactive. Trainers only seems to care if you take too long to complete it. -Strict Clocking-in Policy. -Not a team-centric job. You will feel alone. Small cliques everywhere. -Constantly watched by managers or senior developers to see if you are working. For every second you are on the clock you are expected to be working. If you take too long to their standards, they will constantly pester you about it. Don't expect to go to the bathroom for longer than 3 minutes. -You are placed into small rooms with 2 or 3 other developers or people completely unrelated to your function. The noise is atrocious from the loud typing of others. -The computers and technology is old. It seemed they went out of their way to find anything free that they could find and customize for the company. -Learn PHP before getting here, it will save you some headache. That is all what they do here except some old software that will be obsolete that was made in Java. -Listen to the person that said "Don't come!" in their review. I wish I did.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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CEO approval
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Pros

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Cons

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