Good company with questionable decisions and a big amount of technical debt to deal with
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Taxdoo was a great employer I had. The company have always had been really supportive in my career goals, helping in progressions, and giving voice to me.
They also have a good amount of highly talented people in the engineering.
Work is full remote and the salary is kept the same across europe, so for those who live in cheaper countries, it has a great competitive advantage.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
- At every few months a completely change of strategy happen, and sounds like Taxdoo do not have a concrete plan.
- The technical part is a complete mess. There are teams taking care of services that no one in the team haas knowledge about the language, or they don't know properly how that part of the product works.
- Many of the decisions in the tech part are not properly discussed.
- On the acquisition of accounting digital, the team that was building the internal accounting product was never consulted, and it has a feeling that over a year of work was thrown away. (The last project that was been build for about 3 months was definitely thrown away because it was never released, and there was 5 engineers working on it full-time).
- In the last feel months I've heard some people got let go with not much of a justification.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
- Make engineering team fully autonomous on their decisions
- Though Taxdoo try to be transparent with questions to the management and so on, looks like some of the questions are deflected
- Engineering teams should be truly cross-functional. Putting one team to work just in the backend and other to do the frontend doesn't work.