BulbThings Reviews

- Horrible work-life balance. Everything has to be done for yesterday, always in a rush, always extra hours, sometimes even nights. Management expectations are out of reality for what could be a good product. This creates massive technical debt that is never paid, and affects productivity. - Clients is only priority. Above employees, above the product. This, ironically, creates bad products for your clients. - Infrastructure security or efficiency is never important, just get it done. This can create scalability or worse (security breach) problems in the future. Management does not seem to care about any future for the company. - Old school management. No understanding of how technology works. No talent retainment, every developer is the same, dispensable, interchangeable. No understanding of Agile, no understanding of the importance of refactor or paying technical debt. No understanding that less hours and more motivation and freedom gives productivity, not long hours, frustration, shortcuts and threatening with consequences if deadlines are not met. - Expectations are unrealistic, being the employees the ones to pay when those are not accomplished.

- As a tech company, it has started with a poor codebase and very low consideration of best practises. The CTO is a ghost that hardly showed up even during the critical moment I experienced while I was there. His presence has improved while we started to get little money but well ... it tells a lot on his motivation and relevancy. - Working crazy hours for virtually nothing as the platform never got traction eventually. Paying for acquiring one user at a time through Google or Linkedin app is not what I call having traction. I won't elaborate on business side of things though, I let this part on other potential reviewers. - Stressful environment caused by a manager/boss that put you under extensive pressure the day before a "release" or during server failure itself caused by lacking development time. I'm pretty sure any developers could testify on this one. - The bosses are dishonests and never hesitate to lure people with more perks and other benefits. I've even been promised a month bonus for having not been paid during more than a month. I'm still waiting for it. (Well not true ... I actually gave up thinking I would get a single penny).