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* Extremely political workplace. Promotions are handed out according to how well you get along with management. Performance reviews lack any substance and are completely opaque. You will have no idea what to expect from one year to the next, or one manager to the next. * Dev management never looks at code and couldn't care less. It's viewed as menial labor. The more time you spend at your keyboard instead of meetings, the worse your performance review will be. Get out there and sell yourself! It's the Microsoft stack-rank system but worse - it's all done behind closed doors and seemingly on a whim. * Product management organization is so incompetent that IT has to rely on hackathons to come up with ideas to save the business. * Majority of dev work is maintaining a horribly overwrought legacy .NET code base. Anything new or anything requiring design is handled in secret meetings that you will not be allowed to attend. Open-source is viewed with disdain by principal engineers scared of losing their authority.

Dodgy systems everywhere that need to be replaced. Senior management that has been in place far too long. People are not motivated to do well since they rarely move up. A clique-ish social environment based largely around hard partying and drinking excludes many. An unfavorable debt situation seems to be causing issues with cash flow. Fundamentally, the leadership has been too caught up in believing in their own rhetoric. While they were going on these last few years about how 'pictures can change the world' a competitor has nearly overtaken them and may do so shortly.