Seniors and Management will do whatever to preserve themselves at the cost of losing trust
Long hours, however its your fault for working long hours but with the expectation that it has to be done (really long hours)
Travel is terrible you will pay for thousands of dollars from your own pocket. You will be reimbursed months later in some cases
Qualifications are not captured well outside of development
Pay is not competitive
Employees managing projects know nothing of the signal flow or the development process in most cases, but have to order for clients based around a particular technology. its a lot of hand holding to be that underpaid
Some Upper management are out of touch engineers (its a gift and a curse) and can most times only reference one aspect of engineering when making calls or understanding work utilization. I had to explain to someone why a Conference would not work traversing a DOD network to our corporate but the same individuals will question the hours you work
50 percent of employees are unhappy or jaded 25 percent are not able to tolerate the absurd requirements
Paints a picture for clients capturing work force but not conveying that they are not dedicated engineers and are between 3 to 4 projects at anytime which causes long hours
Best and worst job I ever had I hate that I love it so much
The company does not invest in test environments you will have to re create the wheel every-time from scrap to replicate an issue which adds to long hours
Planing 6 months in advance for us is impossible usually fly from the seat of our pants
