ComTrade Reviews

3.5

81% would recommend to a friend

(162 total reviews)

66% positive business outlook

ComTrade has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 162 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ComTrade employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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162 reviews
1.0
18 Sept 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of interesting people can be met in this company. Certainly a good career capital. In this company one can learn how not to do the software development business. After over 5 years in this company, really can't remember some other significant Pros.

Cons

Lack of transparency, vision, and values. Company is short-term profit driven, mostly in services sector (software on demand). No plans to focus itself on some specific knowledge, industry, expertise, or technology. Lower wages compared to other concurrent companies in Banja Luka. Very high flow of employees. For a period of three years almost all (around 30) employees from the beginning of the period left the office, being substituted with new (mostly inexperienced) employees. Bad management practices: Micromanagement, Scapegoating, Mushroom management, etc. Bad organisation, above all a lot of incompetent middle managers who are totally useless. Culture among middle managers and top managers mostly based on egoism, vanity and snobbery. Very bad and old equipment (computers, monitors, chairs, etc). Personal improvement not based on competence and merit, but on politics and suitability. Very stupid and stagnant formal personal evaluation and personal development (PEPD) process. On one project you might work with .NET platform, the next one with Mobile platforms, and the next one with Java platform; This makes your career totally unpredictable in this company. High workload. A lot of overtime hours, during working days, weekends, and sometimes even holidays. Overtime hours payed not by the law but by manager's will and mood.

3.0
3 May 2015

10+ yrs

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

It's good if you are starter in this business, but if you are experienced - it's better to run away from this company. Company do not appreciate senior stuff.

Cons

same as the above, if you are already in the business it's better to find other jobs. Company do not appreciate an older and experienced people.

3.0
3 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People are mostly cool and nice to work with. Sometimes you can even work things out which are outside of "regularly scheduled programming".

Cons

Management has very little sensitivity to employee satisfaction. Company is very profit-driven at the expense of employees.

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