- The VP's do absolutely nothing, and when they get called out on it, they pick a random staff member, blame them and then fire them or force them out.
- It's an extremely hierarchal company with multiple layers of useless incompetent management that have no idea how to communicate with each other.
- The company is really run from Malaysia, and the Reading team get zero say in anything. As the CEO and his buddy Rakshit are based in Malaysia, they will constantly exclude the Reading team from decision making and just go and ask the team in Malaysia. The Malaysia team will not give you any information or share any important meetings with you. You will be penalised for this, probably fired, as they wonder why developers can't take more responsibility from them.
- The VP's at Reading do nothing to bridge the huge communication gap between Malaysia. However, to his credit, even if they where capable of leadership, it's an unsolvable problem as the CEO doesn't care about or respect the team.
- If you're lucky to be given any direction at all, it will be changed within a few days. You will never be able to get anything done, as by the time you've interpreted the unclear requirements, you'll be switched onto something new. The VP's will take no responsibility or accountability for anything. They are mostly invisible and just expect everyone to know what the CEO and board are thinking. Then when a tiny thing goes wrong, it's everyone else's fault but their own.
- You'll know right from your first day that you've made a mistake. It's not the fact that Deriv is a gambling company that's the problem, it's how they disguise it and trick vulnerable people into actually thinking they can make money at his betting company. You will be complicit in this if you join, where you will be told not to use gambling terms like "bet" as it will give away the truth to their customers. You will have no say or voice in this, and will be made to do constantly questionable things.
- Developers are tracked only on "commits to production" and slack message counts. They have an internal app that tracks the lines of code every developer writes, but it doesn't actually work, so developers are constantly not meeting their undefined commit line targets. As there is poor leadership ability in the Reading office, that's the only way they think they can track the performance of their developers.
- There is zero atmosphere and everyone is constantly on edge, fearful they will be the next victim of the firing addiction.
