Another review mentioned cliquishness. Understatement of the year. Cafeteria gave me flashbacks to high school. Put up with it for the sake of "team building."
Beyond that, it's a difficult work environment. Computer systems are a basket case. They're so bad that a full-time help desk staff that works its butts off can't keep up and there's a rotation schedule for developers to help them cope with the flood of endlessly-recurring problems. The resources squandered on coping with those problems over and over and over takes away from any that could be spent on correcting the poor design that produces them....or would if there was any interest at all in doing so. No forward thinking at all.
Was lectured once about my code for a complex problem not being simple enough (codebase is pure spaghetti so a tight function threw them for a loop I guess). Frequently forbidden from asking business analysts questions about vague specifications. Main project/bug tracker is very rickety and hampers workflow. Absolutely nothing is documented in any way, shape, or form. A manager "fixed" my work once without understanding it and snapped when I explained why his fix made the situation worse. IT is supposed to have all the answers...until it embarrasses somebody?
Department also likes to surprise people with layoffs and does not provide feedback. Contractors are also expected to attend company events unpaid.
