OnShift reviews

- Experienced, tenured engineering talent started leaving in 2017 & 2018 - Management changed in 2018 & subsequently in 2019 decided to abandon existing Python codebase and rewrite the entire thing in .NET - Laid off half of the engineering team in early 2019 (engineers, scrum masters, product owners) - Remaining half has been searching almost uniformly and leaving as soon as they can find another job (rats and sinking ships, etc) It's a shame. The company had a top-notch engineering team (engineers/SMs/POs) that was wasted by lack of valuable direction and commitment from senior management. Based on ongoing conversations with employees, it has gone downhill dramatically since 2018. The place seems to be led by a pack of foolish hyenas. It's possible that exploding the engineering department & its core products and rebuilding everything from scratch will succeed. Crazier things have happened. But the way everything happened treated a lot of dedicated employees very badly and showed exactly how little they valued the people that built the company.

I never worked somewhere with such strong employees and general talent that still failed to get anything done. The teams were strong and they really tried to own their products and deliver the best results for their stakeholders. But time and again management would step in demanding product changes that did not make sense. They once sounded an alarm bell for a new product launch that was "the #1 company priority". A couple teams pulled together, scrapping their current projects to finish it. As it turns out, there had been absolutely no customer verification and the people who brought this up were dismissed. After a year, there were 0 customers paying for the product. Then to fix the problem they brought in more managers. There was quite literally a 3-to-1 manager to dev ratio. And product owners on top of that. And for every 2 product owners they had a product manager they reported to. For six teams the product hierarchy had 4 levels. You spent more time as a developer managing your managers than you spent developing. At this point, almost all of their good talent was either laid off or quit. Hence the 1-star. I can't even recommend it based on the non-managers anymore.