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Not a place for the technically competent

Software Developer
Current Employee
Has worked at GoDaddy for less than 1 year
April 21, 2011
Denver, Colorado
1.0
Doesn't Recommend
Pros

Good salary and benefits. Good work-life balance, in part coming from poor project and time management, so you have lots of downtime.

Cons
  1. They code like it is 1995. They do not use modern coding standards.

  2. They are very reactive to bad events, not pro-active in adopting technologies that avoid these events.

  3. They have huge complex systems with code that "self documents." Needless to say, no one understands what is going on at all.

  4. They adopt a standard for an old technology (e.g., SQL Server 2000) then fail to change the standards for newer technologies.

  5. There is no project management or system design. There is simply a ticket system, so you write code to the individual ticket with no other design.

Advice to Management

Adopt some form of project management methodology and create a software architect's office.

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