Worst Management. Laid off whole development without notice. - Software Engineer Stayhealthy Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2013
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Pros

The development department is full of talents. I've never worked with people with such high expertise in this field. I've learned so much even though I was just there for only a very short period of time before getting laid off. Everyone was very friendly, and professional. The director looks out for his team and he's super friendly. The IT Management is definitely what a developer can ask for, they look out for you, and implements process to protect developers from getting sanctioned by management.

Cons

By far the worst business management I've ever seen. Laid off the whole development department because something was delayed for 6 months. In reality, it's not development that's the issue, but rather QA department that does regression test for every single little case that gets put in. QA here lacks development background, so they take forever to go through test cases. In ideal places, QA are suppose to be automated with just small supervision.They're the whole reason why things got delayed and not development. However, business management are too blind to see that, and decided to switch "platform" from .NET to Linux. They don't even know that the whole platform is built on Windows, including their only revenue item which are the Kiosks. Good luck trying to get Linux onto those things without a single developer member left. They have absolutely no respect for developers. They will let you go without warning or notice just like how the whole development department did. To add to that, they're probably outsourcing to India. Well apparently the first software platform was also built by them, and we ended up trying to patch up their poorly built system. You get what you pay for.

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5.0
Apr 18, 2019
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Pros

Great Co-Workers, Amazing Management Team, Company Vision Defined and Full Speed Ahead!

Cons

Been here for 8 years and not one single complaint.

1.0
Aug 5, 2013
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Pros

Some people wanted and delivered high quality software

Cons

Lies, lies and lies. Top manger tells us that company is backed financially by big players in health care like United Healthcare and implying that our jobs are secure. They hire four more people because we need to re-develop two applications. Within 2 months (some I believe were there less than one month) they laid off all the software engineers in one day. The reason? The company is moving to Linux from .net How is possible to hire four more people and all of the sudden you realize that you do not want to continue with them and the old team? All within months? Were is the responsibility towards the employee? Besides the four new people in the last 2 months three people were hired 8 months ago and a DBA about 5 months ago. I was told myself that there will be work for the next couple of years. Imagine that most of us moved close to work only to be told that the company after 10 years using .NET is changing platforms. All that money thrown away? I got to say that in the last year was more quality and achievements than in years before. Now that the quality of the team improved and we all saw tangible results the top management decides that all that effort was in vain. I will let the future employees find what was the reason as it totally eludes me.

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