16 May 2024
WiseTech Global Reviews
3.3
51% would recommend to a friend
Richard White
45% approve of CEO
45% positive business outlook
WiseTech Global has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 546 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WiseTech Global employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).
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546 reviews
4.0
21 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Very innovative and creative organization
Cons
Growth slowed after pandemic impacted the world
2.0
9 Mar 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- Excellent culture and diversity! There are so many people with so many backgrounds and religions its almost like the entire world's representatives are in the one office. This shows how open they are in terms of diversity. - Excellent perks! With your morning breakfast choice of eggs and toast and jams, or a wide variety of fruits, or even if you want to pick from an endless list of cereals, you will not run out of options in the morning! - The downstairs gym area and personal trainer will make sure you work off all that food! - Monthly birthday celebrations are provided with a wide range of cakes and even Thai food for lunch! - Pizzas and drinks every Friday afternoon! - Most people are friendly and there is a general sense of a stress free environment. - CEO and chief architect have a great attitude and won't hesitate to spend time to talk to you. - Their x-mas parties rock! Literally ;) - Their hardware is phenomenal with every engineer provided two 42'' monitors with hexa-core processors for your machines... very spoiled! If perks are what you are looking for in a company, this place is for you!
Cons
- Software is extremely stale, with WinForms (outdated since 2005), ADO.NET DataSets (superseded by EF in 2007) & Windows CE for device development (outdated since 2006). - They've reinvented the wheel on almost the entire stack, with a custom ORM, custom CI, custom cloud, custom query builders (rather than linq to entities) and even custom accounting software (instead of SAP/Oracle/MYOB). The majority of the developers are experts in WiseTech's specific architecture, but have no idea about the frameworks and tools out in the real world, making it extremely hard for them to be valuable in the software industry. - Their flagship product is distributed via RDP to customers rather than standard practice SOA or Smart Client apps! This makes the usability experience of the product horrendous with lagging and latency on every user interaction. The intermittent hanging is also a detriment to user experience. - Any new opportunities to write new modules in their flagship product are still written in WinForms with no developer interests in delving into tools more recent than 10 years! - Code base doesn't adhere to best practices: PascalCasing private fields, test classes in the same source file as implementation classes, namespaces don't match folder structure, no dependency injection (making mocking and stubbing difficult), and UX practices are non-existent (i.e. documentation over intuitive flow through the app). - Archaic task management system based off a single book that targets industrial warehouses which was written in the 1980s (when PCs weren't even on everyone's desktops!). Most software development companies these days follow 21st century books written by software experts that recommend a vast array of agile methodologies to suit any software process. Again, rather than using existing task management tools, they have resorted to re-inventing their own heavy, slow, unresponsive, non-intuitive incarnation. - Emotional attachment to projects, leading to overly defensive attitudes towards change and improvements. This is precisely the opposite of innovation. - Their new(er) rebuild has been (so far) 6 years in the making and is using "current" tools like WPF & JQuery which have already been outdated before the product is even complete. It is still monolithic, which means staleness might last yet another decade while the rest of the tech world changes around them. If pride in a company's software solution is what you are looking for, this place is not for you!
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