BET Software Reviews

CON's This applies to the cancerous Cape Town Branch. Anything positive about Cape Town is highly suspicious and should be treated as such - Environment - Insane levels of stupid micromanagement - Cameras galore - Metrics monitored on a weekly basis based on coding days, tickets etc and that have no meaning to what you actually do, measurements are for management to brag to the directors, not for ANY GOOD AT ALL. - Heavy monitoring on devices time in time out - Not allowed to work on mobile devices, but you have to have teams installed and they use your personal whatsapp - double standard. - Monitoring software on your laptop - Every piece of monitoring is for negative purposes and not to help you - Work till you drop, and then pushed more - Leadership Does NOT understand technology or cares enough to learn, when you repeat the same things over and over. I've had instances where I have explained something, and then immediately asked again - Last +-3 months, constantly ignored my feedback and warnings and requests - Rules by fear, "Business is not happy", "X will do it if you don't" - Make you doubt yourself instead of encourages you - Extreme biased and favoritism - Complaints when take lunch as a tech lead - No appreciation - From tech lead up, you are "expected" (aka forced, if you don't do it they "examine" your role) to work overtime, this was never explained or raised during onboarding or initial interview, very well hidden. - Overtime is paid back in time, unless a specific project is signed off for OT (Once in a year for my role), else you work till your drop and then they complain. - I stopped having one-on-ones with my lead, until I don't answer my phone at 11:30/Midnight due to family emergency, only had time for me to complain and not support - I have been degraded in front of the entire floor, and no apologies - My manager doesn't understand leadership at all, and is all about attacking the bad and ignoring the good - Does not listen, and gets aggressive over people talking to them - therefore constant conflict - VPN issues, her answer is to punish and make you everyday in office instead of fixing the VPN issues - so punish a person for the infrastructure not working - Instead of learning new tech, they want to rewrite into old tech because there is no time to learn, no drive to be better - Told to care about my product, yet I'm the one who got it live, I'm the one giving HOURS into the night, and weekend time to fix problems that they were WARNED were coming - You are expected to do "war room" calls, with no guidance, no information, no explanation on how they work - and if you don't the Head of Software examines your position in the role. - Very quick to attack and very rare to be appreciated. - Cancerous, Toxic environment, WATCH YOUR BACK constantly - HR is non-existant for employee's, it's there to protect management, do NOT be fooled - I have seen 1 HR guy for over 6 months, and only walking past me or when management is upset - People get fired and rarely replaced, my HR rep was fired and never replaced, my Product Manager left and never replaced - Management does NOT care about red flags - you fix it or you go in front of the head who has no idea what's going on on the floor with the devs - Head of software doesn't show interest in the tech being used except the UI, doesn't understand anything about what a development house is, and it shows in the way things work. - They actually have a resignation on oracle, so they know the problems and ignore them - People in the upper tiers, that don't support new people and instead throw them under the bus (Cape Town) - No care or compassion from management - Was told straight to my face that work is more important than family, and you are expected to give up your family for work. - Condescending and rude management - Extremely bad measurement systems - They measure you by COMMITS, yes number of commits and number of tickets - forget complexity, forget being measured on the quality of code, and learning and pushing yourself - this is not something here - pure quantity over quality - It is QUANTITY over quality. You HAVE to get something out, regardless of your time, energy, family balance and warnings. You do not have a say, it's by date X or you are not part of the eco-system, and get worked out - They preach a culture that Cape Town does NOT follow, it's a lie to get your in. There is no work life, personal life balance. - Salary underwhelming, below market share, and only people they pick get increases and promotions - you have to be friends with Cape town management to get anywhere, and they are not worth your time - They use the mid-year and end-year bonus as a hook, don't fall for it - your life is WAY more important than a bonus that is a joke anyway as it's based on a joke of a salary - At least 80% of people that I KNOW, have left within a year - On call 24 hours a day, do not believe the core-hours, which changed 3 times in my time there. Policies will change for management's benefic, NOT YOURS - Punishes the entire team over the the mistakes of the few - NO job breakdown ( I asked my Manager many times ), or requirements list, or training provided - NO benefits like pension, medical aid - there's R1000 to sanlam, but really, that's a joke that isn't even worth talking about - I went away 1 weekend, and complained that I wasn't near my laptop

-Heavy micromanagement literally everything is tracked cameras galore, constant metrics monitored on a weekly basis based on coding days, tickets etc, bi weekly demos to business, heavy monitoring on devices time in time out, your work laptop literally freezes cause its doing a upload of your screen recording, i7s become celerons with the level of monitoring tools, Yet all these tools are used to track your negatives never positives - everyone is thin, out stretched, burnt out, you end up having to do multiple tickets and work due to no capacity and having to be on support due to little capacity yet there is a whole support team in durban whomst just call forward constantly it seems getting a call at 2am for something that could've been done without you is the norm and having to report to the office the next morning is the norm here "you can be placed on support for the whole weekend not get a call but when u are called your are expected to have your laptop open within seconds you dont get standby pay, only when u called for support" . - stealing ideas and recycling brds /POCS of past employees is the norm here. - issues raised by employees are laughed at and not addressed by management. They dont care, issues have been being raised from days when people joined you'll even leave with those issues not solved and the cycle repeats like its a new issue when its not but the guys who been here the longest just laugh and smile cause they know business doesnt care as long as money is coming in and these HR session are a formality, HR is such a waste of time they cant do anything of value nor protect employees or business what is their purpose besides ticking boxes and hiding in their section until your exit interview. +Extreme fatigue and burnout its constant go go go go mentality never stop reflect freeze, what did we learn. Its code till ur fingers burn and u fall sick then repeat repeat repeat till there is only 3 people in ur team and end of the week u have to make sure ur admin is in order your points and your small cheque and no benefits come in at the end of the month. +Horrendous environment. Devs are replaceable, expendable, individuals with core system knowledge built the system understand it are not valued and you dont realize that as much as you deem them expendable to fix one issue took you a week/months and lots of money lost when the individuals who built that would've taken them a few hours. Most your core system issues daily stem from lack of employee retention and accountability which leads to constant inconsistencies and financial loss. +the decisions business has taken are unraveling and you are losing a large amount of talent from knee jerk decisions and lack of transparency.