H&R Block is the world’s leading company that specializes in tax preparation services, providing customers with a complete choice of getting tax help on their terms through various platforms, including in-person, online, and virtual options. For more than 60 years, H&R Block has offered the most personalized tax experience to help and guarantee customers get their maximum refund by combining the knowledge from tax professionals with computing technology and digital services.
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Due to Covid and the company having everyone go remote, WLB has been great. The company does expect to go back to the office for 2022 though. As a software developer/engineer, if you're looking for an easy job where no one really checks in on you, this is the place to be. The company adopted a 'squad' based approach where the squads consist of people you don't interact with on a daily basis at all, so if you don't like much interaction here ya go. Compensation is decent for the area (they consider years of experience over skill though)
No process in defining acceptance criteria for user stories. Good luck trying to untangle what you're supposed to do. The leads just seemingly assign random shirt sizes, especially given that some of them "don't feel comfortable" with Typescript and Angular but assign user stories a size of XS when it's clearly larger size. Only leads have a say in sizing. Pull requests are reviewed by a select group of people (the leads) and only that group of people. The reviews themselves can take literal weeks with no feedback. Days for configuration changes (a PR for a one line change took a week with constant emails/messaging saying to review and approve it). If there is feedback it's along the lines of, "Make a new line here", or "Move this specific using statement up to line 3". No discussion of the actual implementation of the code. If you ask for a reason as to why they want something a certain way, you will get a "that's how we do it" type answer rather than a real reason. Took me a month to realize that "do front end style" in PR comments was referring to Google's TypeScript styleguide, even after asking directly what the leads mean by 'front end style'. Leads seem scared of generics and favor use of `object` in areas of the code, so fun. Lack of standards for unit tests. (Unit tests with assertions of `expect(true).ToBeTruthy()` for Angular or `Assert.AreEqual(true, variableThatWasExplicitlyAssignedTrueCoupleLinesAbove)` for C# is what you'll be greeted with. Pipelines enforce a certian code coverage. Unit tests are an after thought to most, if not all, the developers and are written to satisfy code coverage metrics, as clearly stated above. Microsoft Teams usage is abused: all of the channels are set to private and everyone communicates via direct messages. Be prepared for a long list of direct messages because public channels are not created so everyone can see what is going on. Why not create a channel yourself, you ask? Only a couple people are allowed to do so. Standups consist of onshore and offshore devs, so there is a time discrepancy. The actual discussion in standups typically are just false updates saying that 'x' is done when it clearly isn't checked in but simply running on the individuals local machine. The actual culture, as far as remote goes, is non-existent. There is no 'cooking' channel or 'gardening' channel or something for employees to get to know each other. Haven't had any sort of once a month 'play a game with your squad/just talk about stuff'. But, squads consist of a bunch of random people put together to satisfy being called a 'squad' anyway, so. Might be petty, but the only thing I've received from H&R Block since being here is a cup. Neat. If you come in with a certain level of skill be prepared to feel like you're regressing with how leads enforce their practices.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE: HRB) will report fiscal 2023 first quarter results on Tuesday, November 1,...
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