Good tech stack, terrible senior management
Pros
Good tech stack, mobile, web, backend kotlin, kubernetes. Strong engineers. Office location is central enough, near Pearse St train station. Little or no working late/weekends/on-call
Cons
When I joined I was assured "only 2 days per quarter in the office for planning". Within a year, this interview assurance was changed to 1 day a week, then pushing for 2 days a week. They only had 2 days of sick leave a year, which legislation has forced them to improve. They had a bad round of redundancies in 2023 - laying off practically the entire product management team, a performance engineer who recently started, forcing 4 engineering managers to interview for 2 positions and letting go offshore contractors. They were always completely opaque about the company finances and I still don't get why an Irish company isn't applying for Enterprise Ireland grants for new development. The C-level members seem inexperienced at best. It's still an 8 year old "start-up", which means a failure to scale up. The CTO codes a lot, rates developers by metrics like lines of code committed and they push tech debt to a committee of volunteer developers. There's two offices in Ireland, Dublin for the I.T. staff and Limerick for the pharma trained staff. No C-level staff are based in Dublin.
