Bad money drives out good - Software QA Engineer Arlo Technologies Employee Review

1.0
Dec 23, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Competitive salary They prefer to hire you as a contractor with a salary over the market.

Cons

Arlo is claiming to be lean and agile - what a joke! Why? This is hell wrapped up in shiny cellophane. The working environment is just pathetic, with no collaboration between teams, no visibility what-so-ever of what's going on, daily production escalations, bureaucracy, and bad management practices. For example, the backend QA team will never provide the correct API for the client QA team. They just get around it or even worse. They provide the FAKE one to wasting your time. Do you think it's personal behavior? NO, it's approved by their manager. And they never treat you as you deserved. You will see the 5+ years developer is doing the manual test. but the new-grade monkey is doing the framework. You can not complain about anything because every manager has their own political consideration but never for quality. They even break the deployment just in order to make the other team embarrassed. The offshore team is lazy and without any discipline. The local manager just sits on his throne and keep abusing the noob. He even asks members cannot go to lunch before he moves. What a pathetic people. Bad for software career. You will only learn how to be a scum here.

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Arlo Technologies Response
6y
Hello, we value all feedback given to us from current and former employees as we strive to understand different perspectives so that we can continue to improve our overall employee experience. With that, we thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. As our business continues to grow, we will continue to listen to feedback and put in place initiatives that we believe will make Arlo a great place to work. We do invite you to give us ideas on how we can continue to improve. Please feel free to email us at feedback@arlo.com with any additional comments. Thank you!

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Cons

Salary is a bit low for the industry, but peace of mind truly is priceless.

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Thank you for sharing your positive experience with us! We're glad to hear that you're enjoying your time with Arlo and that you feel valued as part of our team. Your contributions are appreciated, and we're committed to continuing to provide you with a supportive and fulfilling work environment.
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