Country Club Culture | Not Actually a Tech Company - Software Engineer Red Ventures Employee Review

Executive board has the diversity of a country club Insane amount of meetings. People who talk about work are rewarded more than people who actually do work. People get promoted just because they sat in the office longer and were seen. Promotes hours over quality of work, and horrible for anyone with a family. There is a sort of Stockholm syndrome going on, especially amongst people who’ve spent their whole careers there. There’s a culture of people who are miserable, but they look down upon anyone who leaves with “couldn’t hack it” type of comments. Performance reviews are completely arbitrary. Promotions and raises have nothing to do with actual output. You’ll get promoted if you brown nose executives, that’s it. Some legitimately creepy culture practices: I won’t get into the rumors, but male execs visibly develop strange relationships with women straight out of college that are half their age Not actually a tech company, no matter what they say. The software practices range from bad to non-existent. SWEs are entirely at the mercy of constantly changing priorities, which leads to massive amounts of tech debt. ~2/25 execs actually have a tech background. . In terms of the technology roles, the pay is generally below market value. Everything trickles down from the execs. Which means constantly changing strategy, nepotism, and aggressive and sometimes public beratement as your “feedback”. They over value their college hires, leading to a group of 25 year olds running strategy and leading “career development” for people with double the experience