Focus in growth, not so much on Engineering - Senior Software Engineer Firstup Employee Review

1.0
29 Jul 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The offer a good pay, and pay for health insurance.

Cons

Lack of of knowledge in the C-level team of Engineering, which translates into last of trust. Budget constraints, unannounced lay offs, outsourcing to Europe.

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Firstup Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We will make sure your review, along with the recent survey feedback from the Engineering team, is shared to support our leaders' ongoing development. We're also excited to welcome our new CTO to the Executive Leadership Team (joined in January 2024). His experience and expertise will be instrumental in further elevating our engineering capabilities.

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