Engineers must avoid at all costs - Senior Software Engineer Beyond, Inc. Employee Review

1.0
Jan 1, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits were nice enough, but even that aspect was subpar. New campus is reasonably pleasant. Stable job, ish, on the tech side.

Cons

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.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Fast paced environment with LOTS of hands-on experience with many different tools. The people are the reason to stay, lots of smart and caring people, managers, and leaders towards the bottom of the food chain.

Cons

Upper Management has completely destroyed this company and gutted it. In my several years at the company, communication is as poor as it could be. Bonuses are promised and then not followed up on. RIFs happen far too frequently. It is abundantly clear that this company does NOT care about it's employees, and at the moment is almost seems like they are trying as hard as they can to get people to quit so they don't have to pay severances before acquiring more companies and moving headquarters to Texas. The culture in the days of Overstock was incredible, it made people excited about being able to work there. Now people are hanging on by threads, large teams are now carried on the backs of just 1-2 people without additional pay as we see co-workers get laid off left and right. It is not sustainable. Important things are being missed because there are not enough people to do the work, which will end up biting the company in the butt for compliance and finance reasons.

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