Its OK. Good to start with, hard to make a career. - Senior Software Developer KUBRA Employee Review

3.0
11 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

OK benefits. Most people are really great. Not a downtown Toronto location. Social events. I like working at Kubra despite all the cons, but it is becoming more and more difficult in a day to day life at the office.

Cons

Below average pay, yearly raise is also minimal (1%-2%, sometimes less). Bonus is calculated by bogus formula - we get corporate email from owners that we increased profits, but then get only 50% of what we could of gotten. Furthermore, at one point top management sent an email with goals for the year, but at payout day, the goal was raised by 3% so we did not qualify for 100% of bonus, but only 50%. Depending on the team, some are passionate and awesome, some are clinical and "you took 5 minutes more at lunch, where have you been?". Overtime is mostly not available, but again, depends on the team. Some teams have VPs that fight for every OT hour (they prefer you take a day off instead of pay), but some VPs dish out OT like peanuts and some lucky people that are in the right circle rake up over 10K of OT $ in a year, easy. Constantly lacking resources (sales sell, but we got no one to work on), thus projects delay, customer are unhappy and IMHO this is unsustainable. Some programmers (seniors too) are very shabby - the code they write is on par a recent grad. This is not because they are unfamiliar with the technology, but rather because they lack logic or didn't have time to properly test (still their fault) or just don't care enough.

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KUBRA Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We regularly evaluate our benefits and compensation packages and compare and benchmark them to our competitors in the area. The compensation programs we have in place are designed to recognize and reward our people based on performance. We want to ensure our people understand how the bonus program is structured, which is why we share the formulas and calculations with our people. If you’d like to discuss your concerns in more detail, please feel free to send me an email or stop by my office. Laura, SVP HR

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