Sweatshop - Senior Software Developer Progress Employee Review

1.0
Dec 17, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Few people left who are decent, the rest would step over your rotting corpse

Cons

Patronage - knowing someone (the higher the better) gets you a job Sycophancy - knowing how (and whose) derriere to kiss will make you safe Technology - management lives in terror of anything invented after 1990 "Day of Learning" = pushing buttons Benefits - no department lunches, only cheap cheese-and-cracker parties Remove vacation time accumulation - call it "Unlimited Vacation" Isolated Management - no idea who is in my chain of command Buzzwords - "collaboration", "team spirit", "innovation" Stupid Ideas - moving to Waltham w/open work area, no individual desks Criticize Agile = Career-Limiting Behavior Short Sprint times - day off = losing big piece of development time Give unreachable goals so people work unpaid OT Talent leaves, hire college grads - they're still deluded that hard work=success

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Cons

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