Great Travel Opportunity, But Significant Issues in Engineering Culture
Pros
If you are assigned to their main client project, you will have the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands.
Cons
Engineering practices and developer experience Overall developer quality of life is quite low: - CI/CD processes are effectively non-existent; deployments are largely manual. - Code quality and architecture feel outdated, closer to early-2000s standards. - Developers are so overloaded that there is no realistic time to refactor legacy or “smelly” code. - Most testing is done manually by developers. There are some automated tests, but their coverage and reliability are minimal. If you need real confidence that a change is safe to ship, you will only get it by testing extensively onsite. - Client management is highly resistant to change and unwilling to adopt even basic, modern development practices, let alone move toward more advanced approaches. People, HR, and team leadership: During my three months at the company, I received some very unusual feedback - not only about my performance, but also about me personally. You should be aware that you may be evaluated as a personality, not just as a professional. This can be unpleasantly surprising.
