Not the best place to work at - Senior Software Engineer ObjectStyle Employee Review

Hi. Thank you for your feedback. It's a pity that your work with Objectstyle didn't match your expectation. I appreciate specific feedback, and I wanted to address some of the points from it: > Outsource company. Doesn't have its own products on market. Yes, our business is custom software development. However, long-term projects are our specialty. For some of our projects, we accumulated enough expertise to provide product development services. Moreover, we have a couple of open-source products, such as Apache Cayenne, Boutique, and Agrest. > Vacations' descriptions coincide with reality on 30%. You must check it accurately. Otherwise, you are in trap. As for the vacation compensation, we have to obey the Belarussian labor law. In short, it operates with medium salaries, and unfortunately, vacation compensation doesn't equal the work compensation for the same time period. I understand that it might be confusing, but we can always provide a detailed calculation of salary, vacations, and sick days. > Overtime isn't paid, but you are forced to overtime without compensation sometimes. That's a very serious point. We don't support overtimes, and that's not the norm of our work. Our employees are reporting the number of actual work hours at the end of each month. I've reviewed monthly reports for 2021, and on average, 3 people out of 70 reports around 5 hours of overtime per month. After reading your review, I confirmed with team managers that we didn't request overtimes from our employees. > Developers are fired if a project is being closed or decreased. Alternative positions are not offered to them. The decision to let the person go is the last resort for us. The hiring cost is very high for us. Before making such a decision, we review the currently opened positions, potential positions, and feedback from the team and the client. Unfortunately, it's not always possible to find a new project. It's always tough to lose an employee, but hopefully, you were able to find a great place to work. > Low annual bonus. Our bonus amount depends on the company's financial results, the person's average salary, and the amount of time the person worked in the previous year. On average, it's about 60 - 70% of the monthly salary. More often than not, it's a substantial addition to the base salary.