They're not on Blind but has anyone heard anything about the company? How's the culture, growth and tech?
I have previously worked with pivotal labs for 6 months. They are especially trained in how to show off to their client. they project themsleves more than what they are. They are crazily expensive for what they do, like 5 to 10 times more expensive. Their process is purely theoretical, will not work in practise. They charge 200$ per hour for a quality senior developer, and follow pair programming. thats 400$ per hour. We asked them to work on node.js but they said they were only rails shop. They are friends with our execs, so that worked out for them. We eventually re-wrote the app the moment they are out of project. They stop working exactly at 5pm, even when your prod app is broken. They spend twice the time in UI than the backend performance. I totally hated when i was working with them. our then (previous company) CTO made a big mistake choosing them.
That's really unfortunate, thanks for sharing. They sound like an outsourcing firm.
They pair program on everything that's why it's so expensive. Twice the resource for the same output as an individual but always "in theory" twice the quality
Culture is a bit of a mishap mash of 3 companies. Tons of growth, really strong product in the market. Working on scaling the org
Ive worked on the Cloud Foundry team for a while now and I can honestly it's the best position I've ever had! great employer, great environment / culture and working with CF has always peaked my interest. love it.
Hi, nice to see your reply. Which location you were working at? What was the pay? What's was your YOE then? Thanks for answers.
I'm working in labs and I really like the company culture and the fact that everybody is so nice. I was skeptical about pairing at first, but now I actually enjoy it. And speaking of leaving at 5PM, I found that as a major advantage to their tech companies when it comes to work/life balance (which is the best from all the companies I've seen until now). The only downside I see in working here is that the work hours are not flexible and you can't really work from home
If you work in a pair at the office. There are plenty of roles at Pivotal where you can work from home, engineering included.
I don't know much about CloudFoundry. I worked a few years ago at PivotalLabs and their quality and discipline at building digital products is unmatched in my opinion. Totally miss working there!