Great People - Software Engineer Paperwise Employee Review

Paperwise is a great company to work for! Management has a good vision of where things are headed, leads with integrity, and gives developers the tools, guidance, and freedoms they need to be creative and develop innovative software efficiently. The team of engineers I worked with were bright, hard working, and just good people to be around. The company as a whole really feels like and treats each other like family, with frequent meetings and company events where everyone gets to cross paths and intermingle, you'll never feel lacking for good conversation or a helping hand.

Sometimes the dev work can be a bit chaotic, with a bit of a "bus factor" at times, but the job certainly rewards those who take initiative and are up for a challenge.

- Long running professional relationships with the team - Nice break room - Personal Trainer - Thorough QA team - Fun for the first few months

- Horrible and useless health benefits - Uncompetitive pay scale - Raises uncommon at best - Promotions almost non existent - Extremely disorganized and difficult to please upper management - Owner tended to play favorites with his "in crowd" managers, even when they were inept at their jobs - Ridiculously high turnover. The entire engineering department turned over in less than 2 years - No formal training opportunities - Married to the Microsoft tech stack, zero consideration for any tools not built by Microsoft directly - Zero major releases and only 2 minor releases during my 2+ years. It's a software company. This is completely unacceptable - Once anyone shows even the least bit of initiative the management gets paranoid about losing their jobs and make life miserable for their teams