Toxic leadership, amazing engineering - Senior Director EPAM Systems Employee Review

2.0
Oct 5, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Capable and engaging engineering teams Interesting clients across broad set of sectors and locations Reasonable progression up to a point (around B3)

Cons

Toxic political climate, esp in EU Progress depends on your political alignment not performance Silo'd business structures Command and control delivery structure

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EPAM Systems Response
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