Beyond, Inc. Software Developer Sr reviews

- management Let me elaborate. You entire lifespan at Overstock will depend on which team you end up on, and which cliques you brown-nose yourself into. If you are lucky, you will have a manager who will shield you from most of senior management's odd ways of operating which include but are not limited to: rapid fire projects that have no consistency (not to mention developer requirements), projects with impossible deadlines that come paired with immediate blockers, or just no sense of direction at all. Mixing these inevitable scenarios, you are left with a system riddled with tech-debt, an analytics platform that no one trusts, and never ending quick-win assignments that only pile on more garbage to the obvious crumbling infrastructure that our drunk leaders call a "tech-company". - false promises If the lies about salary being above market value weren't enough, leadership also likes to tease their developers with bonuses and bounties that historically have not been delivered on. Miss the bounty deadline by a day? Dang, no bonus, but we still need that project out there, and yesterday. This carrot-on-a-string strategy has further distanced teams that used to work well together as everyone is now after their own profits.

Where to begin. All management at all levels are completely unfit for their roles. This manifests as total lack of ownership of teams over what they are working on (for “team players”), black box business direction means there is nothing to align with so every project doesn’t make real business sense and is more set against dictatorial opinion than well-reasoned healthy goals (“fast paced”). Most dev staff have adopted a coping mechanism of “that’s just crazy overstock, I’m just here to do what I’m told at this point” which is beyond unhealthy and leads to useless engineers who produce unsustainably bad work. Management don’t know how to do their own jobs, which go completely unfilled in terms of responsibility, so they just try to do other people’s jobs instead - even the micromanagement issue aside, this is a problem because they are utterly bad at those usurped jobs too. No feedback loops anywhere. Most teams are lucky if they have a manager who even bothers to talk to them about how their job is going on occasion. This has created a completely out of touch executive team - explicitly by their own choosing - who have completely misguided conclusions about what has proved to be a good decision and what is causing major harm to teams. Even if they were clued in, though, it wouldn’t change their behavior, because they feel their responsibility is to each other and in no way to their teams. They simply don’t care and go out of their way to avoid doing things that resemble caring.