GoTo Senior Software Engineer reviews

4.2

79% would recommend to a friend

(89 total reviews)
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Rich Veldran

85% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer Engineer employees have rated GoTo with 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 89 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. GoTo is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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89 reviews
3.0
Mar 12, 2020
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Pros

Flexibility to work from home and deal with any personal matters is extremely nice. The people who work here are generally dedicated, low-stress, and smart. There's a pretty good social atmosphere. The location in Goleta is incredible. There are well-defined opportunities for advancement, and they seem to generally prefer to promote from within.

Cons

The lack of investment in anything related to DevOps and internal tooling is honestly embarrassing for a company of this size. Maintenance of infrastructure, security auditing, etc is all completely left up to developers, and because there are almost no teams working on internal shared resources, you're left to start from scratch every time. Sometimes this is freeing, but ultimately it wastes a ton of time. There is a persistent threat of layoffs and other executive tom foolery that ends up being a combination of terrifying and frustrating.

3.0
Feb 7, 2020

Great work life balance

Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is amazing and the company makes sure that the employees enjoy at work with different competitions with great prizes etc.

Cons

Uncertainty in the company is very high, and that causes a lot of anxiety about the future.

2.0
Oct 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

If you have a good manager, working at LogMeIn is quite good. Colleagues are smart and friendly and there are a lot of learning opportunities.

Cons

If you are an engineer do not expect to make a career at LogMeIn. Engineers are not valued. They are just replaceable, expendable resources. On the other hand, if you are a manager all your bad deeds are forgiven. You can abuse your power, care about nothing but your own advancement, even commit serious misdeeds against your people, you are forgiven or promoted by LogMeIn. HR knows this and looks away. They always protect the person with more power. They do no justice. They do what they believe the best interest of LogMeIn is, but they are wrong. Managers are not nominated by competence but based on how well they can position themselves. They are not tested in any way if they are fit for the role. They may be narcissistic careerists, LogMeIn accepts them as managers. Managers are sent to trainings but it does not matter because their core personality will not change. Not all managers are like that. There are really good managers here. But if you are not careful your manager makes your life miserable and LogMeIn will not help you. And the corrupt managers are still at LogMeIn making a career with HR's help and approval. LogMeIn could be a great place to work without all the bureaucracy and corruption.

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GoTo Response
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Thank you for your review. LogMeIn invests a lot in people manager training and coaching both on global, as well as, Hungary level because it is true, employee engagement is significantly affected by what type of managers there are in an organization. It is also true, that becoming an effective, authentic and credible people manager is a complex and long journey not everybody completes. Nevertheless, integrity is crucial for us, so in case you encounter any instances of corruption, please reach out to me personally.
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