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BioFire Diagnostics

Acquired by bioMérieux

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Software Department is Dying - Software Engineer BioFire Diagnostics Employee Review

2.0
2 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fair amount of PTO and the company makes a great product. If you are a Project Manager, you will be rewarded and have great opportunity for growth.

Cons

Software Engineers are leaving at a crazy rate. Everyone who has left attributes low pay, lack of leadership, no work from home will be offered, poor management communication, and no room for growth. Management doesn't seem to care about this and will not communicate about people leaving. If you want to have a fulfilling software engineering career, this isn't the place (anymore). Your wage will be stagnant, you wont have anyone to mentor your, and you will never talk with your manager. It seems like some managers always try and find something negative to say about you in your yearly 'career development plan' and will use that as an excuse for low raises. Almost everyone under a manager came out of their yearly 'talk' very demotivated. I am not sure how many of these are due to management or HR. Both seem to be a problem.

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5.0
11 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent benefits with four weeks vacation per year.

Cons

Hard scheduling days off . Always conflicting days.

3.0
25 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work week hours. You get every other Friday off. Plenty of vacation time. Very good 401k. Decent medical benefits. Coworkers are the best to work with. Excellent talent and ingenuity. The developers are top notch, project managers are awesome to work with to a degree.

Cons

If you are a test engineer, you will have every project manager, associate director, director and senior director know better than you how to test software. They conform to the factory based test method. They wont let you deviate so don't try. Even with their extremely educated management, they seem to know little to nothing about Tacit and Explicit knowledge or ignore it outright because it doesn't fit into their outdated method. But aren't above informing you how a test case is to be written so that anyone can run it. (A terrible model that makes lazy testers, expensive test case documents, and crappy software)

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