16-Year-Old Start-Up Company - Anonymous employee Gryphtech Employee Review

-Practicing nepotism -Lack of strategical planning and giving buffer -Afraid of changes from the existing out-dated and bad system, procedures, standards, etc -Insanely high turnover rate What to Expect when you work at Gryphtech DEV -Always short on schedule as 'new' project squeezes in the existing project -Lack of knowledge transfer across the different product QA -Always short on time. often need to kill quality to meet deadline, yet managers expect to deliver a good quality -Short testing window, no long term testing or stability testing SUP -Due to poor quality, always busy on support issues. Some of the issues should have been caught at the QA level -Due to insufficient knowledge of the product and/or logic behind, relies on the developers to help with the issue which adds to the 'short on schedule' -Any changes made by support do not get tested by QA team OPS -Servers and systems are not built for scalability. Multiple issues with old systems and load balancing issue. -No scheduled maintenance or temporary shutdown despite the fact that company has nice load balances PROD -CEO and Managers cannot say "no" to projects if clients are pushing for it. -No project is written down; no functional specification document,no requirement document DESIGN -Only 1 person in the design team; solo work the whole thing. -Due to no documentation, mock-ups are generally the only way to show client and bounce back-and-forth