Not a job for life - Anonymous employee SeeByte Employee Review

3.0
Mar 3, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Some really good clever people; you could learn a lot. - If you like travel there are plenty of opportunities. - Good location in Edinburgh. - Some really interesting work. - Flexible working hours (sometimes!)

Cons

- Salaries are below industry standard. - Communication between engineering, sales and management is broken. - Company suffers from educational snobbery. A lot of folk have PHDs and they are treated better than others without. - Too many managers and not enough engineers to do the work. - New CMMI processes mean little changes to code take a frustratingly long time to implement. - No standard pay grading. An engineer can earn more than a manager just because they are in the 'right' circle. - If you don't like travel it could be an issue. - Training is very limited. - Becoming very profit orientated at the expense of quality. - Dress code (even though we are not customer facing!)

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 6, 2025
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Pros

- Engineers are all very approachable, support is very readily available, strong engineering culture and resources internally. - There are some interesting projects (dependant on assignment) - Some travel opportunity - Great WLB, never asked to do overtime.

Cons

- Compensation lagging behind in recent year, despite the company allegedly having annual checks with market rates. This seems to affect recruitment standards as the company does not attract the grade of engineers they say they want, anymore. - Technology stack is stagnant and work is not technically challenging. From a purely engineering point of view, the majority of work done would be considered boring and uninteresting aside from a select few projects. - Management processes are difficult, disconnect between upper management and engineering frequently leads to information being lost. - Communication channels are inconsistent, leads to information being spread across email, chats, and issue management items. This leads to engineers struggling to find required information. - Engineering managers frequently unavailable / overworked, don't show up to meetings which they have organised, which is a waste of time for engineers and leads to further disconnect from the engineering/product. - Resourcing is allocated on a whim, without care for expertise, skills, or personal preferences. People asked to re-train into skills they never signed up for to fill a temporary hole, instead of more forward looking resourcing and recruitment. - Career development past senior grade seems to be reliant on opportunities that will never be given to someone of senior grade. Too many principal engineers, basically one has to leave to allow a senior to be promoted.

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