Like a headless chicken hastening its own demise - Software Developer DealerBuilt Employee Review

1.0
14 Feb 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free snacks, decent desks, laid back (although usually chaotic), and an overall nice office with close proximity to the airport The health insurance is above average and there's some 401k matching If you want to show up and collect a paycheck this is an excellent place to work. Anyone up to and including the CEO can and will assign you work regardless of what you are already working on, which obviously means you will rarely get anything significant done. This could seem like a negative but on the contrary; it leads to a churn of issues that frequently delay or prevent issue resolution. This scenario occurs because of issues which live outside of formal processes to categorize, schedule, and define work. For example, you'll have person A present an issue and on the basis of urgency/importance they will circumvent the formally in place process. Usually this notification is in the form of an instant message or simply walking up to you. When person B approaches you about a separate issue you can point back to what person A asked for and tell person B you can addresses their concern afterwards. At some point person A will circle back and ask about their issue, to which you can point to the issue from person B. In reality this lack of tracking and informal comparative analysis could be used to placate certain people seemingly indefinitely because of their lack of coordination with one another, themselves, somehow, and the system put in place to prevent this situation.

Cons

Often the work is uninspiring because much of the backbone of auto industry software is dated. This is not a good place to work if you take pride in the code you write. There is no clear architecture and the quality of the code is so low that if it were submitted at a collegiate level computer science course, you would fail the assignment. In fact some of it actually was written by college students who had no oversight. In a year's time they have lost and been forced to replace the entire .NET development team. This has lead to the typical issues one would expect from a company with a high turnover rate. Nepotism is rampant, which has lead to the typical issues one would expect from that (e.g. no accountability for family members, and people being in positions for which they are entirely unqualified). As a result, there is a good chance that if you need something done you'll be doing it yourself regardless of whether or not you're qualified to do it.

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DealerBuilt Response
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Thank you for taking the time to express your feedback. I'm sorry that you didn't have a positive experience with us. We value feedback from current and former employees, and I wish I had opportunity to speak with you directly and better understand your concerns. We've recently implemented strategic anchors to guide our business. We are currently in the process of launching new software tools to ensure that our product suite remains relevant and innovative. We will continue to strive to be a great place to work for all employees. Again, thank you for your feedback. We wish you the best.

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