Backbase reviews

- Incredibly high turnover in the company. Some people just disappear and you have no idea what happened to them. Lots of nice and smart guys left company in recent months. - Criticism between teams and inside teams as well, that makes working atmosphere very unpleasant and toxic to work. - No technical growth at all - applying new techniques and frameworks almost impossible. Very bureaucracy environment. - Lots of technical debts after every release. A lot of them are still not resolved and no one really cares about them. - A lot of miscommunication between departments inside company HR <-> Finance. - People are treated as “corks” to fill the gap in sinking boat. - Salary below average in Amsterdam (tbh other company also offer not much higher salaries). - High workload for some people. If someone quits the volume of work is still the same and you have to work for that guy as well. Caution for people who wants to apply for this company: Local (Dutch) people won’t work for this salary. Freelancers/contractors are too expensive. So you guys are the last chance, last hope for them. After entering the company you’ll nicely fill the gap in the boat as a "cork" - managers are happy. Every month they import dozens of new "corks" from all over the world trying to keep the boat floating. What about you? Who really cares about the ”cork”. If the “cork” is old or it can’t fill the gap properly it will be replaced by another fresh one. If you respect yourself think twice before applying here. Be mindful - don’t waste your life here.

I really think it's not ok to lie to customers... they organise a massive event each year to basically sell things they haven't done or things barely possible. They spend a massive amount of money to simply create fluff. Everything is fake, they just think at the last minute of something that looks cool, ask their design team to spend ages on a nice presentation and then just demo this fake thing without even thinking about it's feasibility. It's pretty shocking actually.. It's ok to sell, but it's wrong to completely lie. I think they are good sales people before anything else. The management doesn't really care about the product itself, just the money. On top of that, they actually don't do UX Design at all, so don't bother working for them if they want to hire you as a UX Designer, they will just give you UI work to do, or powerpoint presentations (or google slides). A few people are lucky and get in the right team, but most of the time it's not great. I think some people are super motived, tech wise, design wise, but there is no process, and the management is egocentric. They have 10 VP of blabla and they are just bragging about air.