Clio

1. Snacks and food: Fully stocked kitchen with a spread and bread for breakfast, and with all kinds of snacks. Free lunch on Friday.

2. Gym: The office building in Calgary has a gym.

3. Young people: Very interesting and fun people.

4. Pay: Pay is slightly above average.

1. The office: Calgary office sucks. The desk is very small. It is open space and it feels like a university library.

2. Lack of professionalism: Some people are extremely unprofessional. You can expect people mocking others with different political views.

3. Work-Life balance: No work-life balance. Your work is your life and your life is your work.

4. Inflated titles: A person who can barely be a team lead is a director. This applies to VPs, managers, senior developers, and staff developers.

5. Startup culture: At the end of the day, it is a startup. If you don’t like startup culture, then it is not for you.

6. Collaborative work: At Clio, there is no such thing as independent work. For every task you get, you end up working with somebody else.

7. Some managers are bullies: A manager at Clio will bully you to show that they have power.

8. Ruby on Rails: No developer wants to work on Ruby on Rails. I remember they started a project in Ruby on Rails in 2019! The argument is: “everybody at Clio knows RoR”.

9. Feedback culture: Everybody constantly asks for feedback. One thing they don’t understand is feedback is very valuable and a person should feel comfortable and willing to give feedback. You wouldn’t give feedback to a person you have known for a week.

10. No QA team: There is no QA team and as a developer you are expected to write end-to-end tests.

11. It doesn’t matter what level you are at, you are expected to act like a manager. Managers will throw some responsibilities to you. They don’t care if you are interested in it or not, the only thing they care about is “growth”.

12. They encourage you to challenge your teammates/managers when you disagree with them, but at the end, you will hear “No”. When you ask “why?”, and they can’t provide a reasonable argument, the answer will be “because I don’t like it”.

13. Benefits start after 3 months.

14. RRSP matching starts after 6 months.

Get rid of Ruby on Rails.

Use specific languages for specific projects.

Stop promoting people who are not ready to be managers.