This may sound like a rant. However, this place is as appalling as it gets. It is facing high turnover because of the factors.
Nature of work
- Application development is not even remotely close to any standard practices. Developers have "Throw the code on the wall, hope it sticks" attitude. Lazy "coding" attitude will grind down any motivation a new guy has.
- Some of them (including "team leads") don't even bother to learn/read existing technologies used in the application. They lack technical know-how and have no desire to learn.
- Infact any shred of development happening has been pushed to offshore and effort is made to keep them busy, so onshore team can relax and wait for paycheck.
- Any work for onshore team is thus, naturally, just donkey work. Making people wonder why not hire entry level people for the job.
Management
- Egoistic and foolish hierarchical management which drives pitiful development. They are living with an old school mentality.
- Developers don't have any say in technical decisions( can you believe that?) and are ruled/dictated by incompetent bunch of project managers with fancy titles (to boost their undeserved egos)
- Politics and hubris rule this place, cliques and lot of tension between mgmt and dev team
- Management team has no people skills or communication skills (Bitter truth), they will talk in day long meetings to show everyone they are busy. In other words, they are people who have miserably failed to retain or land up a management job elsewhere.
- Mgmt expects everyone to "work", without hesitation and without any advance notice, on weekends for several straight weeks (public holidays too). They will always expect you to show up at work on time. They will never show you any gratitude for slogging or respect for the work you are doing. That's right not a word of thanks from these arrogant souls.
- The reason for indifference/lack of respect is they treat you as a livestock, cattle without brains. Your hard work won't reflect in yearly performance reviews which gets you laughable measly raises.
Finger pointing, blame game and how to offload the problem to someone else is the order of the day in this hellhole.
Entire effort is made for CYA operation and blame someone else for the incompetency.
Career opportunities/promotions/pay raise are directly proportional to how well you suck up to mgmt.
