Pros
- Compensation is reasonable even though for people back in the home country is much lower than the overseas counterparts despite the fact the most of the heavy lifting in terms of product, delivery and backoffice is still in Portugal. This creates some distrust among peers. - There's a stock options plan that for everyone but unfortunately unless you're a manager you can forget anything substantial. - Despite some people undeservedly gaining ground and crawling to the top there's still a lot of bright and friendly people to which is possible to do valuable work with. - The HR group is very supportive and trying very hard to keep the culture that made the company special. - There are opportunities to move in the company.
Cons
This used to be a great company and a great place to work. The kind of place where you would feel joy to wake up and come to work. Now I can only say that it's nothing like it was and the joy it's not the same. It's a growing company with a fast pace but some of it seems artificial. 30% to 50% of the workforce joined in the past year in what it seems to be an attempt to inflate evaluation. Strategy change almost every 6 months with major reorgs every couple of years but the product remains basically the same for the past 2/3 years when mobile was introduced and the web part is getting outdated fast. Amidst this constant change and turmoil a few things are emerging: - Everyone likes to brag on how smart and "special" our people are but the truth is that there are some "not so special" people and those seem to be riding the wave and getting themselves to top positions. Nowadays it seems everyone is a director a VP or Head of something and in some cases without having done much to justify it. - It used to be a clear meritocracy with low politics but now unless you're good at self promoting or you're friends with someone you can pretty much kiss goodbye to any intentions of progressing. - Despite the fact that talent in the technology is scarce the few talent that exists is treated as if it was expendable. There's a career plan that seems to be more for show off and attract external people than anything else and there's not a real focus on developing people as it existed in the past. - The famous" OutSystems culture" is barely hanging. Despite the honorable attempts from the HR group there's a lot of backstabbing and politics emerging.