Pros
1) Nice tech stack: Java/Kotlin, AWS, ElasticSearch, Redis, Gitlab, Kafka, Kubernetes 2) Friday lunches and team events every other month 3) Good work like balance
Cons
1) I understand that companies have to let go of employees during this pandemic but how they handle it says a lot about the company. TradeRev sends an adhoc meeting invite to all employees getting furloughed, founder breaks the news and talks for 2-3 mins, and before the employees could process it, account is deactivated. Horribly mismanaged. Business will eventually pick up but TradeRev has lost the respect of its employees. Employees who were let go ain't gonna come back and the ones still there can't wait to get out. 2) Years and years of bad design, poor coding and never once stopping to clear technical debt means the monolith is a huge mess and a maintenance nightmare. Oh yea, if they talk about building new micro-services during the interview, don't fall for it. They have been talking about it for years :D 3) Politics, politics and politics. Most managers are bootlickers of VP and unless you get into the good book of managers, you ain't progressing. And people who evaluate you on your technical skills have abysmally low technical skills. And yea, they will shamelessly talk about writing clean code, when they are the ones who have created this huge technical debt in the first place.
