Blah - Staff Software Engineer Blackhawk Network Employee Review

Because expectations were low, many non-engineer contributors were hard to work with, not able to take ownership of their role or their part of the domain. Low expectations also led to enormous tech debt, which was too readily accepted as a fact of life, and treated as a person problem, rather than an incomplete engineering job. The "agile" scrum vibe was a disaster, focusing on glib metrics. The classic pitfall of trying to do "agile" and "iterative" unilaterally, with no buy-in from stakeholders. So what's the point of that? The point is it allows managers and decision makers to pass the buck on accountability on to individual contributors.