30 Nov 2018
Fourth Response
7yFirstly sorry your time with us has come to an end and I hope you are happy in whatever you are doing now.
You covered a lot in your post so I will try to address the main points.
The office is purposefully relaxed because our philosophy is to treat people like adults not stand over their shoulder. Maybe this didnt feel right for you which in many ways I can understand but its an important part of culture and 95% people treat and embrace this respectfully.
The technology point has been well covered. We are a product company with a mixture of technology powering our solutions, old and new. That's pretty normal but also again not for everyone.
If you were made to feel like a cog in machine, I am truly sorry. Whilst we always want to be aligned and work together towards the same goals, every person counts in that. In Sofia we have a manager to employee ratio of about 10:1 so our business is very much built upon the efforts of our engineers. I will continue to look at how we can better manage the teams so the engineers really feel this.
All the best,
Jon Walder