1) Product built on very old technology , so when you decide to move on you will realise you have missed a lot of things currently going on in market. Also this kind of tech reduces the overall quality of product that way Seclore faces a lot of difficulty in scaling and this will affect your career as every new tech companybis highly focused on scaling.
Example :
Java - Seclore uses old versions of java, doesn't implement any new feature by java not even features like multithreading to be honest.
Struts 1 - This framework is older than your great grandfather , Apache has not only closed its support but also has removed its docs from its website.
UI Tech - UI looks good but again backward style of frontend designing and execution making the product user unfriendly big time , good news is they are focusing on this at-least now.
2) Input is very high output is very average - You will work very hard creating something absolutely amazing I used to thing the same way until I came out of my box.
Truth is things like old tech, bureaucracy, architects and management level people not believing in ideas of people except for few selected ones makes the actual outcome of the work done to a very average standard. I consider this as a con because you are working very hard but most of it is going into vain or is a donkey work.
3) Managerial level people not competent :
Many current employees may not believe it , but let me state some facts for this to be true
a) 70% of work force joined right after college, they don't have any example to compare their current bosses to. What they learned here looks too much because they almost learned nothing in college except a language or so, but when you move out of here you will realise you learned some good stuff but too less.
b) I will agree with fact that these managers are champions of the product they have and the tech they are using to built it, not all of it though, but when it comes to enhancing the product they fail big time, their lack of knowledge of current tech standards and its implementation has made the overall product very unrefined and even after 10 years the product looks like it belongs to some early stage startup or was build in 90's and didn't got updated.
c) These guys are extremely fearful of taking any kind of un-calculated or calculated risk. You and pour a sea of ideas on their head but they are only going to except which requires minimal change. Minimal change is good but you loose at scaling, dev time is big, document and resource identification, minimal ways to identify how good you have built it.
d) 90% of managers lack ORATORY skills(not even god can prove me wrong over here), presentation skills, reviewing skills, architectural skills, RND skills. Looks like everything you need to become a manager, they are not very bad but they are nowhere near good.
4) No place for a lateral, you wont be able to leverage your knowledge. You wont be allowed to take risk. You will have to follow orders like a minion. You will treated well if you did the said things. This profile is good for some kind of people but if you really want to make something out of yourself find a better place.
PS - These cons are not written out of spite, I am just bringing the truth to you as most of the reviews are written by freshers and when they move on they think the same but nobody updates their reviews.
