Windmill Smart Solutions Reviews

Every company has its cons but at Windmill , the positives outweigh the cons, all good :)

Once I read here at Glassdoor that Windmill is a company of the "one-man show", in fact, nothing has changed since the reading of that review. The company is still in the same mess, every month or two they present a new “star” to the team, who came to fix everything from the height of his 15 years of experience, so far the issue is related to HR dept, Talent acquisition dept, there is no CTO in the company for years. Here are some experienced real examples from the workflow: 1. Management is quite toxic the owner and his minions allow themselves to yell at subordinates and insult in the presence of the team. 2. The owner may appear during a call with a client and without understanding the essence of the process or discussion, may start throwing people out of the call and can even kick the client. 3. In general, communication with the owner is far from calling it pleasure, a person’s mood changes every 15 minutes, at first you can be the “best man” and after few minutes you can start listening to screams that you don’t understand anything about what you are talking about and there are doubts in your qualifications and wise versa. 4. Endless meetings for 3-4 hours to explain to a non-technical manager why this technical solution is suitable, in the end he still doesn’t understand and asks to write a rationale to the client 5. Micromanagement - daily governess calls about nothing, the inspectors themselves do not understand the process, but they really want to control it. 6. Management can independently promise something to customers without consulting technical specialists, respectively, this can cause serious processing and build-up of technical debt 7. The owner can get to github himself to change all the branches at his discretion, and the team then has to restore the structure within two weeks. 8. Access is a separate pain, over the weekend you can get the project you are working on in Jira archived, and on Monday, instead of starting work, you need to spend half a day to restore accesses. 9. Receiving calls and messages outside business hours requesting an urgent response for non-critical issues There is a problem with processes due to constantly changing managers, people who work at the C level - principal for more than one year can be counted on the fingers of one hand.