Noname Digital, which employs about 300 people, has not paid its employees for six months of work. The reason was an unscrupulous customer who failed to fulfill his payment obligations.
Situation sorted out DOU, which took comments from employees and representatives of Noname Digital. Here are the main points.
Out of 300 people, a significant part of the team is developers. One of the specialists claims that he has not been paid for six months. Payments were also delayed for other developers, which, according to him, is about 100 people.
Some of them are a little better off — one employee left the company in May, after two weeks of delay.
«Two weeks passed. The developers were “tearing up” the chat hoping to get through to the management and the financial manager about payment. Very rarely did any of them answer that they were “working on it”. Three weeks later, we received information from the management that only those who were at the stage of project delivery would receive some payments. “After that, I said goodbye to my colleagues and left the corporate chat,” he wrote.
It is important to note that for many developers, cooperation with Noname Digital was just an additional income. The specifics of hiring and employment were as follows:
«To be honest, I realized that the lack of a legal justification for the subscription in the contract would sooner or later lead to such a situation. That’s why I didn’t take on 4-5 projects in parallel», — one of the employees admitted.
The experts also spoke about numerous problems in the company.
The company itself confirms the information about the delay and offers to «raid» the customer’s app pages in the App Store.
This was supposed to speed up the receipt of payments. The developer explains that «raids» provided for such actions:
In its official response, the company said that it had paid 25% of the agreed remuneration under the contracts to the software developers using all available funds of the company. And at the end of June, in any case, we will make another payment to our developers in the amount of 10% of our contractual obligations using internal resources.
«As it turned out, the customer had previously committed similar fraudulent acts against other companies, which we did not know about at the time of entering into agreements with them. Our company acted as an agent performing a contract for the customer, who is the payer under such agency agreements. Developers, on the other hand, provide services as individual entrepreneurs and are taxpayers. We receive a small percentage of each order that goes to cover the company’s operating and other expenses, so we are unable to cover the debt to the developers for the services they provide on our own,» the company said.