Stay away all employer! - Senior Software Engineer Upwork Employee Review

1.0
Aug 26, 2017
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Pros

Ambience is good, but management is very bad.

Cons

1, Full pressure to employee 2. The management is abusive to its employer 3, They even send emails at night for urgent fixes, so very bad work life balance 4. No salary hikes

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Cons

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