iTech Media Career Development FAQ

Pros

Absolutely amazing culture! There is so much fun packed around every corner and everyone works really well together. You are listened to and your ideas have real weight inside your team. Everyone is super happy and there is a real positive vibe everywhere you look. The company has so many great employee benefits and they keep adding benefits all the time.

Cons

For me, the work that I am doing is not challenging. iTech does not make complicated web applications that require any real thought. In-fact the sites very rarely have anything dynamic/real-time on them at all. Furthermore there is no desire to move to anything other than PHP which would interest a lot of other developers. During the day I can quite easily get away with watching Netflix and giving 40% while still receiving recognition for great work. Praise is often awarded to extroverted employees and/or people who put themselves in the spotlight. For introverted people it's difficult to get any recognition at all because of this. Awards are given out to the employees with the highest amount of recognition in the company and it feels unfair and like a popularity contest to the people who are working super hard every day but don't put themselves centre stage. Everyone is super happy. While this is a pro, it is also a con for me. I don't like the super happy environment, at times it feels superficial and makes me feel like I'm depressed because I'm not as happy as everyone else.

Advice to Management

Keep up the fantastic job. You all do a great job and I always feel like I have a place where I can go if I need help or anything else. Some of the cons I have mentioned are issues within the industry itself and are the same at any place you go to. It would be difficult for anyone to be able to fix them but iTech definitely makes them less noticeable.

Pros

Amazing benefits and opportunity to get creative in all roles. Building the healthiest workplace in the world where their people are number 1. The culture is good and most are open to feedback which is refreshing. Good and smart people and growing rapidly!

Cons

Need better communication and alignment at all levels

Advice to Management

Build the foundations properly and give your senior leadership autonomy

Pros

- Incredible leadership who really care - Fast paced work in an ever changing market - Training is encouraged with a dedicated day every 2 weeks and each employee has a very generous training budget - Empowered employees - Flexible working hours - Excellent benefits

Cons

- None that I can think of

Advice to Management

Continue to reflect and encourage feedback to make sure we keep hitting the right targets as we rapidly scale.

Pros

- Incredible leadership who really care - Fast paced work in an ever changing market - Training is encouraged with a dedicated day every 2 weeks and each employee has a very generous training budget - Empowered employees - Flexible working hours - Excellent benefits

Cons

- None that I can think of

Advice to Management

Continue to reflect and encourage feedback to make sure we keep hitting the right targets as we rapidly scale.