MDA Reviews

Pros

Flexible work hours and casual work environment

Pros

Interesting work if you can find it.

Pros

flexible, low pressure, work life balanced.

Advice to Management

reduce management cost and pay bonus to performers.

Pros

There are some great people working as team leads that are the redeeming factor of the company. If you're lucky enough to get a good team lead, your time here could be okay.

Work life balance tends to be really good. Working late seems to be a rare occurrence on most teams

Advice to Management

Train your employees more, or pay your employees more. You can't do neither. Low employee retention combined with low career development leads to an entire hierarchy of confused engineers. Everyone who knows how your systems work is leaving, and they're being replaced with people tasked with reverse engineering what they left behind.

Pros

None that I can think of

Pros

First, I wanted to point out that I'm writing this somewhat in response to another review I saw on here about the halifax office. I felt it was pretty unfair. That review really took the mickey out of this place and it seemed a lot more enflamed than it should have been. Yes there are problems here, but what place doesn't have those?

The style of work can be pretty intense and in every organization that tackles big projects there will be periods of frustration and there can be friction. Having said that, and speakign quite honestly, I have not seen bullying or harrassement, and I feel I've been pretty involved with some of the more intense conversations that happened late last year. I came in when there was a lot to tackle all at once and people had to work fast to address everything.

In terms of the pros I currently see here... Pay is good for Halifax, and the benefits are better than almost all of the other high-tech companies around here. The flex-time feature is excellent as well. The culture here is a mix of casual and serious, but friendly nonetheless. So far the dev teams are supportive of eachother, and everybody is very smart. I get the same feeling about the other teams here as well even though I don't work with them. There's a lot of growth in terms of business and employees, plus the management clearly understands that there's risk in growing both at the same time so they're looking very carefully at the near and long term planning for the office. There's a ton of room to grow here for mid-range and even senior technical people, and there's an open approach to embracing new technology as best as possible in the team I'm currently in. I get the feeling that that's pretty common where possible. Free parking at the office is also very nice.

Advice to Management

I think you're on the right track... I think the best thing to keep in mind is keeping a careful eye on growth, and keep encouraging improvements to the culture in order to make new hires feel supported and welcome. A proper orientation process for each project is going to help that a lot.

Pros

Stable environment
Good colleagues
Cafeteria on the building

Pros

They teach some good software engineering processes and the domain is very interesting. Great people too.

Advice to Management

Invest more in innovation.

Pros

Learn about process and discipline. Interesting work with multiple projects and domain. Lots of talented people to work with.

Pros

The people that work here are fantastic but they are leaving