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      3.8

      82% would recommend to a friend

      (1,047 total reviews)
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      Tatiana Rizzante

      92% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

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      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      Reply has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,047 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Reply employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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      1K reviews
      3.0
      Jan 7, 2018

      Cluster Reply, boosting start working experience, suggest no more than 2 years

      Software development engineer
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      Pros

      - best starting salary and benefits, unlimited time contract - real-life consultancy experience FROM THE START. - practice is your master, as a starter your manager and collegues will watch your back and give you plenty of opportunities to be wrong and learn by facing real projects in first person! - lot of important clients: it is easy to end up working for them in the end - stress situations out of your league make you grow in months - sometimes you may work from home, if you have problems to move - informal and friendly environment. Ask for help to anyone anywhere, or just a coffee. - free to dress as you like, free coffee and beverages - not strict hours (get in or out when you want, if you feel you can) - free licenses on a lot of products (in my case, microsoft tech) - yearly bonuses for your good work

      Cons

      - you often feel thrown in situations without any adequate knowledge - no technical formation hours: you will squeeze your work time to learn what you are supposed to do and how - overwork culture: nobody will ask you to work more for free, but deadlines will do. Everyone works more, so you know that if you don't, your tasks will load your teammates more. And nobody likes that. It is hard to feel is fair to leave when everybody is still at their desks watching you. - quality of work is not the company focus, workers are often discouraged to put heart in their work (especially eager young employees) and be fast instead - awful coding: programs are not structured with re-usability or easy debug in mind (but I was sort of lucky with my group of work) - labour waste: some people (often because there is no need for them) is asked to perform tasks that is so clear will end up in the trash, instead of using that time on formation - hard to get promotions: only years of experience and age will get you on higher levels (it is not worth it to work more to show off) - hard to ask for an upgrade if not really necessary - AWFUL IT REPAIR department (Slow! Knew more than them without even trying. Better off your own!)

      5.0
      Jan 3, 2018

      Exciting place to work

      Software architect
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      Pros

      Reply is organized as a network of highly specialized sub-companies. The one I work in is called Open Reply. It lets me work on many different, interesting and international projects, along with competent colleagues and managers. Compensation is also quite good, as are the career opportunities - for those who want to catch them!

      Cons

      Poor work/life balance, with frequent overwork.

      1.0
      Dec 22, 2017

      Frontend Developer at PortalTech Reply (PTR). Stagnant technology and unsuitable procedure

      Frontend developer
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      Pros

      If you're a beginner or mid-level developer you can probably thrive here, or even just stay and exist until you know what you want to do. The company has a niche in the market for delivering cheap software for clients who don't necessarily have a clear idea of what they want, but will take what they can get.

      Cons

      PTR lacks communication and organisation. The culture runs counter to innovation and promotes blame-gaming. It took at least two years for dev ops to install NodeJS after the company had been developing multiple SPA solutions. During that time developers were forced to commit minified code into the repo, slowing down development. We later got into trouble for slow development. People had to wait weeks for an email response when requesting holiday and manually update a confluence document because they don't use things like leaveplanner. The attitude of backend developers seemed to be astoundingly non-holistic. They would change the API format without notice and somehow it was the frontend's fault when it broke. The complaints procedure encourages blame-gaming over fixing actual issues. I was sent anonymous complaints which were too vague for me to do anything about. After spending months running around fighting fires because developers wouldn't follow standards, I received such a complaint. Apparently I was "refactoring things I shouldn't". Coincidentally, this was shortly after the guy who happened to demand that we inform him when we refactor things (rather than look at the code in the PRs and make comments in stash like normal) was fired for not doing PRs properly. I asked to move projects (since I was clearly on to a loser and they'd stopped using me anyway) and told there was nowhere to go. 9 months later I was assigned to a total mess of a project which was apparently 10 months behind schedule. So when I'd asked to move, this project was a month behind schedule and based on the code history was in sore need of a frontend developer, but they still wanted to keep me on the project where they weren't using me. I amassed a lot of stories like this after working there for about 1.5 years. They didn't want to improve things at the rate they needed to and I refused to become apathetic enough to continue working there so I left.

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