Role seemed promising at first
Friendly colleagues during onboarding
Access to interesting clients and tools
Kontras
Dismissed during the 90-day trial period with no discussion, despite informing management about a legitimate family emergency
Employment contract includes a trial clause that removes all procedural fairness — they can terminate without explanation or process
Culture of unpaid overtime — the contract says your salary covers “all hours”, which justifies long workdays without extra pay or recognition
Work-life balance is poor; expectation to be constantly available
Zero accountability from leadership when things go wrong
Great communicators, diverse frameworks to learn, distributed source control, has a dedicated testing team, good mix of skills amongst the developers, more focus on delivering working code than what hours you're putting in, flexible hours for those that want or need it, free health insurance, coffee machine in the kitchen, we celebrate each others birthdays, competitive salary
Kontras
unit testing would have reduced the regression defects