Progress Senior Software Engineer reviews

Patronage - knowing someone (the higher the better) gets you a job Sycophancy - knowing how (and whose) derriere to kiss will make you safe Technology - management lives in terror of anything invented after 1990 "Day of Learning" = pushing buttons Benefits - no department lunches, only cheap cheese-and-cracker parties Remove vacation time accumulation - call it "Unlimited Vacation" Isolated Management - no idea who is in my chain of command Buzzwords - "collaboration", "team spirit", "innovation" Stupid Ideas - moving to Waltham w/open work area, no individual desks Criticize Agile = Career-Limiting Behavior Short Sprint times - day off = losing big piece of development time Give unreachable goals so people work unpaid OT Talent leaves, hire college grads - they're still deluded that hard work=success

I worked for their subsidiary Kinvey. They openly violated their employment contract with me. The contract was for a remote role and it required me to travel to Boston four times per year. Very soon after I started I had already visited four times and they started to require more visits, something flagrantly outside of the contract. After that, they cited my refusal to visit more as a reason for letting me go, and they denied my unemployment insurance. I had turned down an offer from Amazon to take this role. Unreal. Also, they didn't send my tax info to the right address and due to their incredible lack of organization, they are barely responsive when I reach out now repeatedly to their office to demand my tax information. ridiculous.