OpenCraft Reviews

3.3

55% would recommend to a friend

(11 total reviews)

47% positive business outlook

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11 reviews
5.0
Jun 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

OpenCraft fully embodies its values, and provides a remote and mostly asynchronous workspace that allows you to truly focus on the things you need to do, when you want to. You’ll constantly be challenged, in the right way. You’ll work with high-profile clients whose names will look good on your resume. The team is hard-working, brilliant, and very supportive — I couldn’t ask for better colleagues.

Cons

Remote and async work requires a lot of self-organization and resourcefulness. You need to be good at managing stress, learn not to over-commit, and take breaks and time off. The job requires top-notch work and brings lots of challenges. Your colleagues will support you, but don't expect a lot of babysitting. Self management (no manager, sharing multiple roles between work cell such as budget planning, sprint planning, etc.) can be a challenge for the unfamiliar.

1.0
Apr 20, 2019

Remote work done wrong

Recommend
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Pros

Normally remote work is quite nice and here the nicest part of the job is being able to work remote.

Cons

- Absolute worst onboarding process I have ever experienced. There is some information written down, but generally there is little to know help and you are expected to figure everything out by yourself. - Presents itself as a company, but really it is more a loose collection of freelancers. Work is paid hourly and as with many freelance jobs they often try to squeeze you so they have to pay as little as possible. Meaning you don't get paid for a significant amount of hours worked. - Poor communication within the company, there are handbooks etc. but they don't contain key information or are out of date and a lot of the time most coworkers are hard to reach and can take days to reply to basic stuff. - Management is largely off doing it's own stuff sometimes going away for months and is very quick to judge and very slow to help. - Turnover is incredibly high, I'd be surprised if more than 10% of employees make it past their first year. This leads to very little camaraderie within the company and a lack of knowledge about the codebase, since everyone is leaving all the time.

1.0
Jan 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

There seems to be some good developers

Cons

* Underpaid by industry standards * Nightmare onboarding process * As other review notes, turnover 80% within the first 2-3 months * They will hesitate to pay work you've done during the "trial period"

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