Awesome - werkgeversreview Anyonymous Employee bij CODE PARTICLE

Amazing and kind people. Very understanding co-founders and some really nice new hires that I wish I had more time to get to know. While true that they’re not a large company with a lot of budget, they go above and beyond if there is a real need. They were especially helpful with all immigration needs. The work is very diverse and you have a lot of opportunities to work and learn many interesting things. During my time I was given the opportunity to work on blockchain, videostreaming and healtchare related projects which was an amazing learning experience. Managers were also really helpful with regards to project and will help you work on what you enjoy or work on completely new things as much as they can. They helped me pivot from blockchain to DevOps which helped me learn a lot of new things.

While the work life balance is well above average in general, there are some times when deadlines overlap and things can get too stressful. However, this might be unique to my work area (DevOps) which required me to be involve with deployments.

If you’re a recent college computer science graduate and you need something relevant for your resume, then Code Particle is probably fine for a year or so. Don’t stick around longer than that, though, and do your own research about good architecture and implementation practices instead of listening to the bad advice of the founders (but do the bad practices they tell you to while you’re working for them so you have a chance of getting a decent reference from them when you leave).

Of the three founders, only one is a competent engineer. The other two both think they’re the greatest coders who have ever lived, but their code quality is terrible, both from an architecture and an implementation perspective, and they refuse to listen to anyone’s ideas. They should stick to managing the business (which is what they’re actually good at). Basically, they’re wanna-be game developers who are frustrated that they aren’t good enough coders to make it in video games, so when they hire anyone who’s actually better at software engineering than they are, it tickles their insecurities.