Paradigm reviews

There are lots of middle managers whom contribute very little to the actual work that needs to be done. Their sole job is either "managing people", or something else that isn't clear, but doesn't directly help complete the work that needs to be done. Also, there are no repercussions for either not completing something, or completing something poorly. The management hierarchy is so diluted that it's easier for people to "kick the can" (whatever issue it is) rather than fixing it. Departments are extremely siloed, which further perpetuates the lack of accountability. Certain departments (such as the "Product Team") are seemingly immune to any sort of accountability. They are responsible for the changes made to standard code, yet are permitted to ignore issues for as long as they please. Bureaucracy is alive and well. There are also tons of unnecessary meetings. The pay is mediocre, but could be much better if the unneeded middle management were cut out. It seems that they prefer to compensate people with meaningless titles, rather than dollars.

Micro management and just poor management overall at the top. As my time here continues there is a glaring flaw that this company hires so many managers at every level but not enough people to actually do the work. Instead they like to utilized offshore work to make as much of a profit as possible. This goes all the way up to the very top. There are so many occasions where particular things are developed out of order and then there is pressure coming from the CEO to a developer to complete a project before that project is defined, and once he has an idea he doesn't care about any of the work needed to get to that end point. He just wants it done and he wants it done now it doesn't matter if there's no reasonable way to test real world scenarios or that the work that decisions that need to be made on the setup can significantly change what needs to be done at the end point.