Agoda

Some great people, absolutely loved to work with them!

Mobile Team Review:

Frustrating management that does not enable but rather blames to an extent where people avoid meetings with certain managers.

There is no culture of knowledge sharing or collaboration. Managers here rather delegate tasks they come up with themselves instead of having broader discussions. The resulting pull requests are usually merged without the knowledge of the broader team.

If you come up with your own improvements, they are usually talked down or it is argued that they do not bring business value. Until this day, there has been no meeting, discussion, or any other session by the management to explain how business value is defined and how it can be delivered; instead, suggestions or even done work are simply played down or rejected.

It happened not once that meetings completely derailed, changed topics, or someone got roasted.

All of this might apply to you in milder form if you are a Russian speaker. It certainly helps to get promoted.

That might also help you to understand some of the management style and some of your teammates that regularly speak Russian with each other.

There is a clear segmentation in the team by language/culture that is in favor of Russians to a point where it is uncomfortable.

I just would love to know all these things before I signed up and before I saw a lot of beloved and talented developers departing from the team.

Don't get me wrong; it's not all that bad. You just have to like managers that tell you:

"Ideas are nothing" or who see all solutions as "nothing magical."

• Help developers understand your definition of business value.
• Reconsider people who have been promoted as managers.
• Invest in diversity & developer culture.
• Listen to your own team.