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Read the community guidelinesThe work is very relaxed, with an extremely high degree of freedom, and most of the time is quite idle.
The colleagues get along very well, and the boss has a good temper.
There are opportunities to learn about very different things or gain experience with large-scale projects.
Aside from its advantages, this is a company with no prospects whatsoever.
First, the clients. Aside from government tenders, which are relatively stable (though they also love to squeeze you), private-sector companies are generally useless, cash-strapped deadweights. They only want to subcontract the work to this company and then wash their hands of it. Most are small companies run by incompetent old-timers. Because the upper-tier contractor is so terrible, the client basically ends up with nothing but garbage, and the company's project staff have to clean up the mess until they drop.
Next is the company's work environment. The company's equipment is unbelievably poor. Hardware is not replaced for years, computers are slow, all data is accessed through a NAS, and all software tools use free versions. Information security is practically nonexistent.
Then there is the company's development. To put it bluntly, this company has no future. It is currently barely surviving on tender projects, has no core operating clients, and lacks the drive to transform itself. Its attempts to turn products into marketable offerings have failed, and in the end, nearly all of its products have become vehicles for making money through government-funded research projects. New employees are paid very little. They will talk about performance or bonuses, but there are hardly any projects, so of course there are hardly any bonuses either. Salaries are adjusted every year, but because the base salary is so low, even after several years of raises it remains far below the market rate.
Finally, the boss. In all fairness, the boss himself has a fairly good temper and can be communicated with. The problem is that he does not take the contents of those conversations and discussions seriously. He has only a superficial understanding of everything, likes to pretend that he understands everything thoroughly, but his professional ability is genuinely very poor. He cannot even handle software design and system analysis in his own field properly. The requirements he gives clients are extremely vague, to the point that clients basically always take advantage of the team. At that point, he finds some unlucky person to take the blame and then disappears.
That is his biggest problem: every project is described as completely achievable and wonderful, but in reality it is totally impossible to deliver. To cut costs, he will take a one-year project, compress it to roughly two months, and only then inform the engineers, after which he starts shifting the blame. The engineers have the hardest time working here. Every engineer bears an enormous workload, while also having to deal with client dissatisfaction and an environment that does not fit the project (because he negotiates requirements recklessly and his technical expertise is too weak to understand what the client specifically wants). There is far too much to say; it would never end. You can safely ignore 99% of what the boss says, because he does not take seriously anything anyone says, including his own words.
In short, if you really have to work at this company, do it only to gain experience; I absolutely do not recommend staying for long. The boss is also very good at selling empty promises and somewhat psychologically manipulating people, making it seem as though following him will guarantee success. The truth is that the company is actually so poor it is almost taking off—oh, and the year-end bonus is pitiful too. The boss will always say that he is generous, but only after receiving your year-end bonus will you realize how miserable it is to have worked yourself to the bone for him.
Young people do not need to waste their time here, and experienced people can also avoid exhausting their patience. Unless your abilities are very poor and you desperately want a job, there is truly no need to waste your time here. You will merely become a professional mess-cleaner or a mess-cleaning engineer. The project experience mentioned above exists because cleaning up enough messes does allow you to accumulate some experience, but it is only that kind of experience.
Just do the basics; don't demand too much. After all, the veterans are like this too.
They use “gaining experience” as an excuse to pay you a low salary,
Even if you have the ability, you’ll still lose out to seniority,
Don’t expect your salary to be higher than the veterans’,
Even if a veteran slacks off, it’s still the same,
Accounting says one thing in front of people and another behind their backs,
Because accounting also handles HR,
When taking leave, they’re both the player and the referee,
The bonus system is completely opaque.
Technical completion is not required
Good for self-disciplined people; a decent place to practice and build skills
You can leave as soon as you finish practicing
Even if you are highly skilled, you are still just the boss’s tool
Remember not to proactively say what you can do
Otherwise, you will have a very hard time
Doing 50K-level work for a bird-brained salary
A traditional, exploitative boss
Low pay
The boss’s professional competence is very poor
Claims to know how to do anything they have seen
Incoherent communication
No standard development process
No technical competence whatsoever
You can log in without a password
Withholds departing employees’ wages and even has reasons for it
Adjusts employees’ salaries based on his mood
At first, they said you could go there to learn, but after joining, you had to teach yourself everything
The accountant is part of the boss’s circle of friends and relatives, so be careful what you say
The boss also handles sales and quotes extremely low prices for projects
Said there would be a bonus for completing projects, paid at year-end
But the calculation method is a black box
If the boss dislikes you, you get a very low amount
Colleagues are easy to get along with
This company pays very low salaries; please think carefully
The turnover rate is very high