- The pay is abysmal and far from competitive with any of the surrounding tech companies, “stock” and “valuation” is constantly preached by the execs
- Pointing fingers is a weekly occurrence in engineering, even worse upper management is extremely toxic blaming individual contributors for their lack of knowledge surrounding pipelines and legacy code
- Spaghetti/legacy code throughout all domains, a common phrase from developers is “it is the way it is”. Lots of hacky solutions within the code base that is either added because there is no code quality or simply pushed because of strict deadlines that never end up being refactored or looked back upon
- The development, testing and production environments is extremely frustrating as there is a clear lack of documentation and engineering managers never seem to care, this leads individual contributors struggling to maintain environments while trying to contribute to actual features
- Cross functionally, devops, domain teams and QA are extremely out of sync, QA may introduce a new testing pipeline that breaks all environments that no team is aware of
- There are a couple of people that have been here in engineering for a long time and have deep knowledge of certain engineering principles but are shunned away from expressing their ideas as management is afraid to take risks. I’m honestly surprised that some have stayed for so long perhaps cause of the “stock” narrative that management constantly pushes
- Lots of contributors (POs, PMs, Devs, Management) that communicate extremely well but are all talk when it comes to implementation
- No growth/promotion opportunities, I have never seen someone in engineering get promoted other than those in management or already in higher positions however this may be because of the all talk no implementation aspect mentioned beforehand
- Features that are worked on for months are not well thought and planned out, be expected to work on a project for several sprints to never see the light of day in a production environment
- There are a couple of individuals that cling onto their title and use it as a authority
- Starting to outsource work/projects to those overseas
- Go on linkedin and ask any current engineer/developer about how great the "preprod" and "pumpkin" process is
