MOO Software Developer reviews

- Managers - most are simply incompetent. Promotions happen on the basis of friendships and not skills. The push for gender equality at leadership levels also adds to the incompetence - Strategy and planning - There is no clear strategy, only generic targets and inspirational stories. As a result, the actual planning and implementation of those visions is mostly left up to the teams. Teams led by those star managers mentioned above. What a mess - Working practices - People are not held accountable for slacking off or making repeated mistakes, maybe out of the fear of making them feel bad. The relaxed pace of work also means that things take ages to get done. Working at a normal pace makes you look like Superman - Performance reviews - absolutely worthless. Objectives are sometimes changed a week before review, mainly because you didn't get to do what you had planned for. If you look above, you might guess that it had something to do with bad managers, worse planning and slackers.

Career progression and development is abysmal, performance review process is close to useless. Line managers often make lots of noise/blog posts but achieve very little. Can think of two recent incidents of entire teams quitting due to management issues Current CTO lacks experience Training budget is not enough for decent training The code base, so much legacy and so many different and clashing architectural decisions. The current development environments are also fairly problematic