Jumping ship - Anonymous employee Findmypast Employee Review

1.0
13 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great location, some nice people. Work live balance is good.

Cons

New CEO coming in will not change things, expect another load of changes, literally everyone is looking for a new job. Parent company made redundancies a couple of months ago and have more or less said that have set time to turn things around. CTO is part time (joke for a tech company). There is a London, Dundee divide and the architect is a joke, he has no real experience and just reads a lot and because the CTO listens to him the tech team end up implementing what he wants. Good place to learn new language, but not very many jobs in the market for elixir developers! I am using my time to learn and look for a job.

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Findmypast Response
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I'm disappointed to hear your feedback but really appreciate you being candid and taking the time to share your thoughts. Technology is at the core of our business and our Tech/Product leadership will continue to reflect that, including at the Executive team level. I agree with you that there are setbacks, unexpected and expected, in any tech stack migration. Moving from a large monolith to a micro service architecture is challenging. As is learning new languages like Elixir, React and NodeJS. But at Findmypast, new skills and improvement are part of the culture we’re building. Growing developers skill sets is important to us so I’m glad you had the opportunity to learn the functional paradigm while here. I invite you to come and talk to me, anytime. Ben Hudson

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