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      AlayaCare

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      AlayaCare reviews

      3.8

      65% would recommend to a friend

      (301 total reviews)
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      Adrian Schauer

      68% approve of CEO

      62% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      AlayaCare has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 301 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AlayaCare employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      301 reviews
      1.0
      May 9, 2020

      Start-up sweatshop

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The building view CEO very transparent

      Cons

      -No processes: no HR processes no product processes and when they are some, they change every time a new manager/director is hired. -Average age of people working is 25 and its expected of you to stay late in evenings and weekends for overtime. No work/Life balance. If you have kids or plan to have this is not a friendly work environment you will be perceived as « lazy » for leaving early or for not being enough present. -No tracking of time, tasks or overtime for some roles and you are expected to just indefinitely take on tasks until burn-out. Those that dare speak up are flagged as non-efficient. - your scheduled will be 90% meetings and you will have no choice than to work 14h a day to compensate and accomplish your daily tasks since everyone has annual based salaries and overtime is not compensated. -You will not receive any praise and there is no advancement possible nor definition of roles or how to access other roles or better positions. -Salaries are under market averages and even if overtime is expected you still need to overachieve internal objectives to be considered for raise.

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      AlayaCare Response
      6y
      I regret to hear about how you are feeling about working at AlayaCare. A focus on culture is a huge part of what we are all about. When I hear things like this, I truly take them to heart. I never want our employees to feel burnt out or feel that they cannot raise their concerns. Please reach out to me, Patrick or the HR team so that we can better understand and help address this for you. Adrian
      1.0
      Feb 10, 2020

      Unrewarding labor in an insidious environment

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - more work than you can dream of - you'll never be bored - good technical challenges - lot's of great people

      Cons

      - most reviews have been written by newer hires in exchange for a desk plant - vast majority of closed working permits, creating a labor intensive culture where people with little extracurricular activity are willing to spend most of their evenings and weekends working - high burn out rate - work on evenings, nights and weekends ; overtime is absolutely unpaid and not even kept track of - complete absence of work / life balance - everybody seems stressed, unorganized and overworked - high intensity low appreciation environment - feels like a sweatshop - middle management is non existent ; amateur hour at its finest - company mission is purely financial $$$

      1.0
      Apr 8, 2021

      If you like doing EM, PM, PO, SM and Dev role all at the same time, then I guess you'll love it at AlayaCare

      Senior web developer
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      Pros

      - My team was awesome and I made good friends there - The technical challenges are interesting

      Cons

      - Abysmal management - There are a lot of unfilled positions and it's been like that for years. So the more senior you are the more you do everything else than coding, i.e. spending more time in Jira than in your IDE of choice. - Lack of expertise in epic teams since we never let them the time to learn and improve their craft. It's sprints back to back and the planning doesn't even include time to learn about the integration testing framework so it's not used. And doesn't even include any time to learn about anything else. - Too many initiatives at the same time and none are done correctly since it's always the mindset figure out as we go without proper planning. - Everything has to be shipped for yesterday. - Salaries are low compared to market value and considering all the hats you have to wear. - There are currently an impressive number of departures each months across all engineering, I guess I'm not that crazy in my current review.

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      AlayaCare Response
      5y
      Hi, I am really sorry that you had such an experience within your team and thank you for your feedback. As you know, we are heavily engaged in getting feedback from all team members. Since my arrival a few months ago, I've made changes to address any situation including the one you are describing for your particular team. Transparency is one our Values at AlayaCare, and as such here are some initiatives which were implemented to address the specific points you highlighted: - We assigned engineering managers to all agile teams, and this has been completed 100%. We are also assigning a Product Owner to all agile teams, including platform engineering, and positions are 90% filled as we speak. - We added hiring criteria to recruit more experienced people, and we are deploying a mentoring program to upskill employees, including dedicated time to learn, with resources such as the O’Reilly eLearning platform. - I have personally led our first quarterly planning with all agile teams. Teams defined themselves in a self-organized way their area of ownership, KPIs and Epics that they will deliver in the quarter. It encouraged collaboration and provided visibility of dependencies. Moreover, we added the notion of a two-week sprint zero every quarter to perform planning, training and additional hardening. This was appreciated by team members, and I encourage you to ask your former colleagues for their experiences. - Thanks to the quarterly planning, and having identified a few themes to focus on, we are minimizing the work in progress and the teams are setting proper expectations on when Initiatives/Epics will be delivered and what they will not work on during the quarter. - AlayaCare is in a high-growth mode, and processes and structure need to evolve to scale for the next stage of our growth. While we don’t enjoy seeing great people leave, it's not unusual to have several departures during these transition phases. One good indicator that I am tracking is that we have people who left a few months ago and are now interested to come back to AlayaCare. We wish you good luck in your career progression. In the meantime, we’ll continue to work hard to make AlayaCare an awesome place to work where people can contribute to a better world. Thank you, Best Regards, Jean-Francois Gailleur, SVP Engineering
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