Software Developer - Software Engineer Hola Employee Review

2.0
Mar 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Very talented ordinary developers, complex interesting tasks, good salary, cool hotel, friendly & safe district, nice women, very good food.

Cons

Company is using outdated tools like cvs, vim and are forcing you to use them. IDEs are prohibited, developers are forced to commit daily even if task is not finished, branches are prohibited. Mid management is micromanaging. Poor source code quality, which doesn't match company coding conventions. Office is noisy and have no glasses, so boss will always see your screen. Before being hired you are invoked to work in Israel for few weeks without contract. This is illegal, you will have to lie to the police officer in the airport that you are just travelling. AFAIK one of software developer was nervous during interview at the passport control, so he was taken to jail during this process, this is what company members told me. While you are working without contract you are most likely to be fired, because they are filtering people agressively. Don't go there unless you have nothing to loose. Development competition is unfair, because many people know tasks in advance and tasks are always the same.

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