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Intentional Software

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Unique company, excellent engineers, future of software - Software Development Engineer Intentional Software Employee Review

5.0
Mar 31, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very high quality developer team, casual and flexible work environment, unique opportunities in both business and tech. Genuine, intelligent and hard working senior management team.

Cons

Still relatively stealthy operating mode. Would like to be able to show more about our work publicly, especially while recruiting.

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5.0
Jul 22, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent pay, chill coworkers, cutting edge tech, good snacks

Cons

Confusing product, lack of team structure

1.0
May 7, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Core technology is legitimately innovative and very well-made. They really do have a unique and better way of writing software. Their platform could really be a really huge deal, if it is ever finished, polished, and released.

Cons

Wages are grossly non-competitive. As a relatively senior developer there I made significantly less than a fresh-out-of-college no-experience developer would make at other companies. 10+ years and they have not produced a product. Management is entirely deaf to complaints of any kind. Senior developers have a history of dramatically rage-quitting during meetings with management. (Seriously, one or two is maybe a fluke, but four or five is evidence of really serious management problems!) Significant trouble attracting and retaining quality talent. Platform is poorly documented and hard to use, because management can't seem to keep talented enough developers around long enough to do that. Charles (the owner/CTO) is impossible to work with, and does not act on any feedback of any kind. No meaningful quality control or review processes, developers are not properly supervised and spend large amounts of time working on code that is thrown away. No meaningful planning or design was done for the product. No coordination between teams existed. Developers are regularly kept in the dark about important details, like what the product they were developing actually is and when deadlines are. Developers with very little experience (sometimes nearly straight out of school) and with no demonstrated leadership or technical ability are promoted to management / lead positions.

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