startupfreak

I worked at tech-team-of-one startups for years. Now I'm working at a big organisation.

In the last sprint, I chalked up 41 story points. The rest of the team (3 other devs and a mostly hands-off tech lead) collectively achieved 9 story points. That's 1 medium-sized ticket each over the space of a fortnight. Everyone has a good excuse, but they ALWAYS have a good excuse.

It's driving me nuts. I'm a good coder, but this isn't about me being good, this is about them all being, on paper, completely ineffective. No one inside or outside the team seems to be batting an eyelid about this. I feel resentful and... confused.

It's hard to stay motivated when the bar is so low, but I would feel guilty slacking off all day. What do I do?

I'm a developer and I'm about to move to the middle of nowhere. I'm looking for remote work, but most of the job boards dedicated to remote work I've found online are for companies based in the US which seem to make the implicit assumption that you're a US citizen.

Are there any remote-focussed job boards that allow you to specify the country the employer is based in, so I can limit my results to UK companies?

A particularly negative review of a London startup[0] by a former employee has been doing the rounds on social media recently. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a couple of extremely positive reviews by current employees have suddenly cropped up for that company as well. So positive they feel a bit like HR plants. But then again, the original feels like a gleeful hatchet-job and is maybe a bit extreme going the other way.

Is Glassdoor reliable, and if not, are there any reliable alternatives?

[0] https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Employee-Review-ROLI-RVW17219691.htm