Low Pay, No Communication - React Developer Avatara Employee Review

2.0
16 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

No development management means you can define your own work and use the job as an opportunity to learn very quickly.

Cons

The company has zero experience with software development with no plans to hire an experienced and knowledgeable lead. There is no organization and no communication. Code is thrown onto a network drive and copied into production. Work comes in the form of random what-if ideas with no structure, or planning. Management doesn't know software well enough to understand proper estimates or capabilities. Pay is well below industry standards, work machines are slow, and can not handle a development setup. You will spend large portions of your day staring at a frozen computer. Avatara is what happens when IT Support Technicians try to do software. They are way out of their depth with no willingness to dedicate any resources to do things right.

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Avatara Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We understand that there are multiple approaches to bringing a product to market. Though ours wasn’t the best fit for you, we appreciate your time and efforts to move our product along at Avatara. Best of luck to you in the future. -Avatara Management

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Pros

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Cons

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