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Ex-Full Stack Developer BrowserStack in Mumbai, India. BrowserStack is a manual and automated web + mobile testing platform. - The local language is not at all
by sinstein 8y ago
Ex-Full Stack Developer BrowserStack in Mumbai, India. BrowserStack is a manual and automated web + mobile testing platform.
- The local language is not at all a part of the code. English is considered second nature for most people and that is what is used for all internal communication, documentation, and code.
- They have been using Agile for pretty much their entire lifecycle with daily standups and bi-weekly retrospectives.
- Languages: Most of the codebase is in Ruby/Rails and NodeJS. The FrontEnd is built on React and jQuery (for the static pages).
BrowserStack is usually considered one of the fine examples of an engineering-driven culture. Engineers are empowered and listened to.
Plus, since the product is a testing tool, we ended up being our own best customers. This provided very valuable insight on user behavior and helped navigate product decisions and keep function over form for the most part.
But as I have learned, BrowserStack is more of an exception in this matter as most other companies in India I have heard of rarely are engineering driven and.