teckro. Reviews

3.6

53% would recommend to a friend

(87 total reviews)
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Gary Hughes

61% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

teckro. has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 87 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The teckro. 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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87 reviews
1.0
11 May 2018

Much to improve

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Well positioned and a good idea. - You will find a chair and desk easily - Drinking sessions are encouraged by the Senior Management - You will learn all the reasons and see firsthand how not to do all manner of things - You will not only code, but will also learn how to perform testing in disparaging environments, as nothing is the same. - You won't have to document anything, as it only detracts you from trying to figure out where the data you need actually live - You will get to work with several database technologies (see above) - You won't have to consider how to scale or maintain anything - You will not be oncall, nobody is

Cons

- Micro management of staff - Manipulative upper management - CTO has an uncanny ability to contradict himself several times in a ten minute conversation - Only thing getting close to a carrot is the colour of the logo - You will be expected to perform lots of work in extremely short time spans - Unrealistic expectations - You will receive a one line description when being assigned a task which is actually a whole new feature, and receive no response when asking for more details. - One man makes all decisions, even if something was your idea - No roadmap - No release schedule - Sensitive information passed in unencrypted emails - Control created by creating chaos for staff - You will be asked to perform tasks that are completely contradictory and expected to deliver next day - Even if family member passes away, expect to be called upon by CTO, even outside normal business hours - Any apology given to you will be demonstrated to you it really held zero value - WFH policy is a lie, it is not encouraged at all by contract and HR requires signatures from your manager and CEO before you can WFH - If you were told you own something, what was meant was, you're the one to get blame for anything relating to it, but you will not have any say in how to manage or run anything - If you have any ideas that are actually useful, they may get presented as having been someone elses

1.0
17 Aug 2018

Proceed with great caution - this place is a revolving door!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Nice colleagues, made some lasting friendships - Building is nicely decorated, though this novelty wears of quite fast - Pay is ok but not industry standards. - Its a good place to get started if you are a graduate looking for your first break because you will learn a lot. Everyone does everything and a lot of the times, what you agreed to at interview will be completely different from the actual role. As a fresh graduate, there is a good opportunity to learn. If you are an experienced professional (like I am), you will struggle, especially if you are already clear on what direction your career needs to take.

Cons

Management - Poorly managed. Founders do not care to listen to what other people have to say. If you are great at brown nosing and sucking up then this may be the place for you. Hard work doesn't mean anything here. People get promoted because they go on drinking sessions with the founders and have perfected the art of telling the founders what they want to hear. If you are not good at bootlicking, then nothing for you here. Introverts go completely unnoticed, unappreciated & unrecognized - They do not trust you to do the job you were hired to do. You will either get micromanagement all the time or you will be ignored completely. You may spend a lot of time and effort on projects and will get no feedback, no recognition, nothing for your efforts. Occasionally, you may get a slice of pizza and beer for your troubles and a long winded speech about the future but that's it. - Upper management appear to be approachable but are very manipulative. Culture - Poor working culture compared to other places I have worked. Again, management does not respect the people who work for them. - There are signs all over the place that encourage you to speak freely and share ideas - proceed with caution here because all three of the founders get easily offended if you say anything other than 'you are great, your company is great, your idea is great etc'. - Bullying is tolerated by management. All three of them do it in different ways. CTO may shout and demean you with his words while the other two (CEO and Business Development VP) will ignore you and create a very hostile and uncomfortable environment to work in. Work environment - Staff has low morale (at least by the time I left, it may be different now but I doubt it) - Management have favorites and show it. - Decision making takes a very long time - ironically much longer than corporates as this is one of the selling points at interview. This is very frustrating - Working from home is discouraged I must say though that the people I worked with were excellent, management has let them down. Job role - Be prepared to work on tasks outside what you signed up for. In my case, about 90% of what I was doing was outside of what was agreed at interview - CTO has no respect for your personal time. You can expect to receive calls, texts and emails at all hours of the night

1.0
1 Jun 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- The "promise" of working on something interesting - business idea sounds like it has legs

Cons

- Blind leading the blind! - Inability to understand the core of the [many] problems that exist in the organisation. - Have witnessed the management interpret the many negative reviews here on glassdoor as THE problem... absolutely no realisation of the actual poisonous culture.. very disheartening for those of us [still] here. - Propaganda such as "some guys are just used to more corporate env" is laughable given that those same guys are the most broadly experienced people within the org. Again frustrating to hear as most know the reality. Technology wise: - it's a poorly setup webapp at best! Falls over every day.. seriously! (This after 2/3 years of "architecting"?) - Chance of doing anything interesting are almost zero if you have anything more than 2 years development experience. (there's no data, no platform, no microservices) - innovation constantly constrained by archaic constraints justified as "this is just how the industry does it, you dont understand how our unique world is"... hmmm.

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