There are too many hires from Microsoft at Kirkland who bring in bad culture of stack ranking and passing judgement on people. Promotions are hard to come by for engineers who do all the hard work and ship products. Honestly, we don't need managers who are not technical contributors. They contribute nothing than bringing down employee morale. It seems company is run by people who can "talk" than who can contribute in some departments in Kirkland. Test org managers are pathetic ("SDETS" or SDET "people managers"). They are now having inflated titles like "Senior Directors" or "Directors" with ZERO technical skills and ZERO github contributions. These are harmful to company's growth than Blake realizes. I used to be proud of GoDaddy's values and engineering culture and feeling increasing disheartened by some of the new management from Sunnyvale and ex-Microsoft hires. GoDaddy's culture and employees are amazing and don't need such ex-Microsoft hires to steer company. We need people with good values and good technical skills for growth.
Also, please fix the promotion system where managers talk senseless on what employees need to bring to get the next level promotion - cross team collaboration, visibility, joining forces are all the buzzwords soon tend to lose value if you're not appreciated. I used to value great work life balance and some test manager especially here and upper management are pulling GoDaddy 10 years back.
