Pros
Plusgrade manages to hire decent people.
Cons
Plusgrade is like a family run business where everyone seems friendly but if you’re an outsider you know you’re getting a bad deal. On the surface everything looks fine. The compensation when you join is okay, the health benefits are nice. But over time you realize that’s pretty much the only thing that works for this company. Plusgrade is a cabal of 5-10 people on the top who extract all value out of the resources and keep 100% of the profits amongst themselves. They talk about IPOs and revenues and profits but none of this ever makes it to their employees. Top level management is narcissistic. As an employee you get no raises, no bonuses, no promotions and no stock options. Their core business logic runs on code that is 10 years old and written in groovy. No one in the company knows how that code works. Half the code is legacy, untouchable and riddled with 1000 line methods that you keep piling on to. The tech standards are a joke. Every 2 weeks, 10 engineers spend 4 hours each to do a production release. Don’t be fooled by their CI promises in the interviews. The product managers, delivery managers understand no tech themselves and there is an endless pressure to deliver. Oh and you need to log everything you do and show how you spent 8 hours a day. I’ve realized that they treat their employees like contractors. Outsiders who are supposed to help them IPO and keep their mouths shut. We are disposable. The churn is amazingly high. Either you have people who’ve been there 10 years or people leave after 1-2 years because of the work pressure.
