Dishonest management, extremely long hours. - Software Engineer Picnic Employee Review

1.0
8 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company is OK with you working from home from time to time. Lunch is provided by the company, although it always sandwiches.

Cons

This applies only to engineering, other departments (e.g. growth and marketing) are much better to work. 1. Working hours are extremely long. Is not unusual to work 12 or more hours per day. 2. Compensation is below market levels. 3. Expectations are usually unreasonable which result in often missed deadlines. 4. There is gigantic amount of technical debt which in turn makes projects more costly. 5. The older and more senior engineers are complete workaholics, many of them usually work on Saturdays and Sundays. They have in turn "set the bar", so you are expected to work terribly hard in order to make your deadlines. A couple of ridiculous things that have happened in the company: 1. There was once the discussion that having a hackathon would be a cool idea. Management decided that the best thing would be to host it from 18h to 23h on a Friday. 2. Company has really hard time hiring developers so they organize "hiring hackathons". They sit three or four people in a room for a couple of hours and ask them to invite their LinkedId contacts to join the company.

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5.0
19 Apr 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Young, enthusiastic team which comes up with a lot of ideas - Great atmosphere and start-up culture - Challenging tasks - Really innovative and disruptive start-up - Job involves continual learning

Cons

Don't have anything to say about cons. Working hours are bit longer than in corporation, but this's what you expected in each start-up.

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Picnic Response
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Thanks for taking the time to tell us about your experience. We're glad to see you had a good time with us. If there is anything else you would like to share, please email me at willem.gerritzen@teampicnic.com.
2.0
5 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- weekly releases - friday drinks - nice colleagues - free lunches - nice office building

Cons

If you are a developer, you should know that the Company is a super-market, NOT a technology company. Developers here provide features, not expertise to the business (you will be support of it at most). The bad: - excessive and long code reviews with focus on personal style of leads - priorities are changed weekly - 0 compensation for extrra hours - CTO neglects development team - CEO pushes people around on weekly calls - very little support if you come from another country -salary is way below average

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