rating for Global Care Solutions
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January 09, 2007
Last year I saw one develpoer leave the company, and she moved to the US to get married. The year before I think there might have been two who left. To be fair there were a few more that only lasted a week or two but that was because they were in over their heads.
We get to work with the newest technologies, we recently moved to Visual Studio 2005 and soon to SQL 2005, and have input on the product and the technologies.
Perhaps things were different before, like 4 years ago, but if so then things have changed. I understand previsouly that there were like 15 developers here, now we have 40+ and for the most part they all seem very happy. The company can not be doing too bad if they more than double their development staff in 3 years.
My advice to you guys who worked here soooo long ago, and for some reason still hold some kind of grudge against the company, would be to move on. In my 15+ years of development I don't think I have ever seen disgruntled employees that stay disgruntled for 3 or 4 years. It can't be healthy...
Anyways, my two cents.
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Upsidedownsizing posted on January 09, 2007 11:08 PM
Interesting how things are going in Thailand. Usually companies that rapidly loose money fire people, this one hires more... -
Can't see the forest through the trees posted on January 10, 2007 05:54 AM
This review illustrates the phenomenon of sycophants that a previous poster mentioned. Either this reviewer is deaf and blind, has very selective sensory skills, is responsible for recruiting developers, or he is trying to buy a few cheap points.
The fact that it may have been even worse in the past is no excuse for the current sad state of affairs. Wake up!
Unless you are a cute lapdog of Scandinavian origin, you have no input in technology or architectural issues. Period.
Just about every developer at GCS is registered with recruitment agencies around town, and local recruiters are said to even start giggling when they hear GCS being mentioned. Since this website is for developers, let's not even get into the business analysts or sales people.
In my opinion, the only thing that makes GCS keep developers is that they pay fairly well in comparison with other Thai software companies, something they can not really afford but do anyway. At least not until they have recovered some of the money invested in this modern day RMS Titanic.
I believe that a majority of the people who have reviewed GCS on Coderific are current GCS employees. If anyone is not, then they are still fully entitled to post on Coderific. The idea behind Coderific is that both current and former employees can share their experiences and opinions so that potential future employees can take advantage of their collective experience. If you don't like this, go somewhere else. The web is big.
Anyway, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and the many colorful reviews already in place for GCS gives potential future employees plenty of material to consider before hitting the "Apply" button on some job website.
Whatever your opinion, everyone who works at or have ever worked at GCS are free to post their own review, whether it is a four star or one star review. Keep 'em coming, more frequent updates results in a better content rating on Google. Who knows, coderific.com may even surpass hospital2000.com if it stays this active.
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