Background: this is my first job out of college, and I joined the startup ~9 months ago, right when they launched (I'm engineer #2, before me, the founders outsourced the prototype to an offshore team). The company is working on ecommerce/ affiliate model with a small twist.
Right now, we have ~1200 registered user, with about 100 active users, and we gained about ~100 users/month. On the development side, we have a straight up waterfall process with 1 hour "scrum meeting" everyday, we have 5 developers right now. We have no automated testing at all, a deployment update every ~4-5weeks, and a tech stack/ jobs advertisement that would look like it's from 2006. A few months ago, I tried to write some unit tests, and I was asked to removed it from git because the CTO doesn't want git to be polluted.
I believe that a) Our rate of growth is too slow, and b) Our development process is a bit less than ideal and c) Fundamentally, something is wrong with our company (at least, from the tech side), from all the things that I've heard and read. However, I acknowledge that startup is far from the pinnacle of engineering, and even the user stats could be misleading. I talked with one of the founders about speed of development being too slow, and he (with a business background) said that from his experience with other startup, it's not slow, with which I firmly disagree. So the question I'm wondering is, how could I judge the state of the startup right now?
Right now, we have ~1200 registered user, with about 100 active users, and we gained about ~100 users/month. On the development side, we have a straight up waterfall process with 1 hour "scrum meeting" everyday, we have 5 developers right now. We have no automated testing at all, a deployment update every ~4-5weeks, and a tech stack/ jobs advertisement that would look like it's from 2006. A few months ago, I tried to write some unit tests, and I was asked to removed it from git because the CTO doesn't want git to be polluted.
I believe that a) Our rate of growth is too slow, and b) Our development process is a bit less than ideal and c) Fundamentally, something is wrong with our company (at least, from the tech side), from all the things that I've heard and read. However, I acknowledge that startup is far from the pinnacle of engineering, and even the user stats could be misleading. I talked with one of the founders about speed of development being too slow, and he (with a business background) said that from his experience with other startup, it's not slow, with which I firmly disagree. So the question I'm wondering is, how could I judge the state of the startup right now?