Pros
- Since the size of the company (and the office) are quite small, the colleagues are quite friendly.
- If you enjoy doing whatever you want in the codebase, with 0 supervision or repercussions, no testing and no one caring for bugs, then First Clarity is the company for you.
Cons
- Payments are delayed/non-existent. Obviously nothing for bonus working time.
- The office is in a basement. No windows. Zero outside light. No clean air. You are at the mercy of the closed air system of the building and some artificial lights.
- Projects are done to a level that they "seem" to be working. Zero testing of any kind.
- Bugs are everywhere. Management does not care for fixing them, only "delivering" new, but mostly broken features to clients.
- There is literally no way to learn something new as a developer or a person. Only using old & obsolete technologies, just to barely support the clients that they have.
- You never know how the company is doing, because they keep it secret. That's mostly because the company is barely held up. Through having around 10 employees, distributed between 3 separate companies (First Clarity, Evolok & FC People), you never know if you will have a job (that pays) next month.
TL;DR :
Avoid at all cost if you like yourself. London is a pretty diverse place and there are plenty of better companies for you.