#Full beaker full#
This lack of trust and support from the CEO likely contributed to the mass exodus of engineers away from Full Beaker. Interesting or high-potential projects (like their premier job search property, data analytics, sophisticated marketing tools, etc.), are all moved to the development team responsible for classifiedads (dot com) (another company that shares the office with Full Beaker). The rate of transactions means there will NEVER be a need to build for scale or performance.
#Full beaker software#
As of early November 2018 Full Beaker has no back-end software engineers and no open positions for software engineers.įrom a dev’s perspective, the problem space is extremely small (5 Wordpress sites, one django ‘backend'), the ‘back-end’, while it sufferers from technical debt and lack of documentation, isn’t particularly complex. The remaining engineers were mostly very new to the company. The rest of the team, including the manager, left a few months later. Six months after the new CEO took over the company, and a 'my way or the highway' speech by the CEO, most of the back-end development team quit within a couple of weeks of each other. The CEO resists bringing in new technologies (the CEO is profoundly non-technical) or providing significant growth opportunities for mid-to-senior individuals. Career opportunities for anyone by but very junior developers are limited or non-existent. Growth is measured by gross profit and is driven almost exclusively by the marketing team.
Understand the difference before you join.įor the backend, the focus is much more on keeping the lights on than innovation or growth. The most important thing to understand about Full Beaker is that they are a marketing company NOT a technology company. Speaking to life at Full Beaker as a Senior Software Engineer: What were their impacts (positive and negative)? Ask how many, and which, major projects were completed in that time. Ask for year-over-year numbers for the last 3 years ask how many new revenue streams were added, at what % of revenue, over that time. There’s lots of talk of growth and new projects, etc. Small companies are all about personalities and with frequent personnel changes, the company you joined may not exist in 18 months. Check LinkedIn for current employee's duration. Historically, the company turns over completely every 1.5-2 years. Outside of the ‘leadership team’, no one has worked at Full Beaker for more than about a year. Aside from creating a ‘do what I say, not what I do’ culture, the lack of support for remote workers means the CEO is out of touch for a significant portion of the week. There’s a strictly enforced ‘no work from home’ policy for everyone else. The CEO works from home ~50% of the week.
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