Terrible place to work - Software Developer Avvenire Solutions Employee Review

The work is fun and challenging if you like the consultant-type roles. You're always learning and on the front edge of technologies. The people at Avvenire are amazing. They have competitive salaries and benefits, they're understanding and flexible with special personal situations including health related ones. Very employee focused and genuinely concerned for employees and their families.

These aren't really con's but just some factors to consider with this type of work. Consulting isn't for everyone. Sometimes doing the same type of projects over and over is where the work is. Some jobs are out of your comfort zone and self-learning time is required to catch up on technologies. Also, IT as a whole is not a 9-5 job especially in a consulting role but that comes with the territory in this line of work.

Diverse technology and projects; paycheck

provided hardware is underpowered and inferior; not current software tools; software not properly licensed; no personal access to MSDN or professional tools; no quality assurance personnel; no test plans; no organized code reviews; no organized training provided despite assertions to the contrary; employs brain dumps for certifications; no group training sessions; no time for training, nearly all hours need to be billable, regardless; sick days are provided but highly discouraged; struggle to get staging platforms, and even to get disk space for virtual servers you need to build for testing; uncomfortable old desk chairs; open seating with dissimilar job roles nearby, so distracting chatter; little oversight or project management; little use of the technology they attempt to implement for others; no process (lean or otherwise), so no scrums, retrospectives, planning sessions, etc.; predictably lots of extra meta-work, for example double-entry on timesheets and status reports; bare and sporadic performance reviews; hours are recorded in archaic fashion and schedules are highly inflexible; insurance benefits are weak; feedback is ignored or considered ‘boat-rocking’; All this and little chance to correct any of it because of the lack of meetings and discussions and reviews.