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So, What’s It Like To Work There?

Dr Stuart Woolley
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8 min readJan 9, 2022

How do you find out? Positive reviews are everywhere, but what about the negative ones?!

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Leading on from a previous diatribe where I presented the case that ‘exit interviews’ are an utter waste of time, for a number of reasons, let’s consider today how you (the departing progressive engineer) can give valuable feedback to your comrades whilst all the time skirting around the dreadful positive whitewash that company job sites and recruiters plaster all over bad situations.

I’d really like to know if a company was a seriously dreadful place to work — the coffee tasted like gravel, the whole managerial staff were ‘agile certified’ or just that the CEO was a raving lunatic who ran around in the office in his pants shouting about cryptocurrency. Wouldn’t you?

Let’s consider the various ways that a well meaning yet wounded progressive engineer can go about sharing their negative experiences (as sharing positive experiences is so laughably easy these days people actually pay you to do it).

Through this, my fellow engineer, you will find enlightenment — or at least find out where all the negative reviews go to hide and why they do so.

A Recruitment Perspective

I’ve given negative feedback to recruiters, and continue to do so, when they approach me…

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Dr Stuart Woolley
Dr Stuart Woolley

Written by Dr Stuart Woolley

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, X, and Overwatch fan.

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