Run before its too late - QA/Deployment BuildASign.com Employee Review

1.0
17 May 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They know how to take care of their employees via food and parties, have a great presence in the volunteer community, but little else.

Cons

Layoffs in the technical departments have already cut down on understaffed teams and the new investors/board members are dictating employment. So in order to make room for a new development manager that they hired, buildasign decided to layoff QA for 3 teams and front end developers in a new "reorganization" of teams. I had taken on more work to show that I was valuable in the new structure to no avail and was given my walking papers. Now they currently have no QA for the code that is getting released, just old style cowboy code. Speaking of Code, its spaghetti put together over the past 11 years, you will want to blow your brains out every day you have to dive into it and then find that it has multiple dependencies on any modifications. Another word of warning is they do NOT pay out for PTO. They have an old joke around there that you should never have your PTO hours over 80 or you will get laid off. I should of listened, mine was at 140, had some vacation scheduled coming up, then was laid off, and they will not pay out that vacation that I had worked for. They want to sell you that this company has a start up feel, it does on the surface, but as soon as you scratch at it, you'll notice its a typical mid-size tech company with no soul left.

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Cons

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