Different company name, dont believe the hype theyre any different than before
Pros
The people I worked with were pretty awesome
Cons
Where to start? The management is completely toxic at Rapid Rtc. If you get caught on your phone, better watch out. You'll be pulled into a room and given a strict talking to about how you're on company time and you shouldn't be texting your wife. They say they're agile, but they actually use what's called "safe" agile which is this horrible framework that's waterfall, but pretends like it's agile. You go into these huge, useless meetings quarterly and plan out the next 3 months of work. But guess what? That's not how agile works, so what ends up actually happening is the plan goes to crap, we scrap the entire thing only to go into another meeting, wasting everyone's time again to come up with another plan with no ability to pivot whatsoever. Innovation here is a complete joke. You're working with ancient code bases that have horrible practices and absolutely no standards. You'll see things work one way in one section of an application, then you look at another section and since someone else wrote it, it works completely differently. Production issues slip by all the time because of these awful practices, and while peer reviewing is done, it's almost always just a "yeah that looks fine" and gets the rubber stamp of approval. The QA here is like nothing I've ever seen before. They will spend months on regression testing their application, only to let bugs get through anyways. The tooling they use for their QA is completely off base, thought up by someone who clearly was put into a leadership position but shouldn't be. Only recently have they realized the value in automated testing, something that should have been done many years ago. The deployment process will make you want to rip your hair out. The tooling used for the deployment process is inadequate at best, leaving you working until 4am on deployment nights. The performance reviews are basically digging for information they can use against you, pitting everyone against each other in this 80's management style. The best part is that the leadership of this company will get up in front of everyone, tell you that things are absolutely amazing, we are making record profits, you guys are doing such a great job! Then, two weeks into a global pandemic they lay off 35% of their company. The daughters of the company manage to keep their jobs, but screw the people who bust their butts off for the company. STAY AWAY. I regret the second I moved to rapid rtc. They will tell you that the culture has changed here, that they used to be a bad company, but now they're all better! They will put good people like Brittany and Mike in front of you to make it seem like the company is better, DO NOT BELIEVE THEM!!!
