Decentralized Decision Making - Senior Software Engineer Block Employee Review

3.0
May 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The bottoms up culture can be empowering. Decentralization allows teams to make the best local decisions.

Cons

Lack of cohesion and engineering leadership, as most decisions come from the bottom. Engineering managers are passthroughs and aggregators of information but delegate almost all decision making. The company is organized around product silos. Not a lot of clear direction or unified vision or effort to generate alignment.

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Cons

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