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Good Pay, Terrible Management

Senior Data Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Aily Labs for 1 year
January 4, 2024
Barcelona, Catalonia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative Outlook
Pros
  • Great people out of top management, but they keep leaving (check "Average seniority of employees" on the company LinkedIn page - Information section).
  • Good pay.
  • Work from home balance, flexibility at the moment.
Cons
  • People working extra hours and during weekends as a standard in many teams.

  • Micromanagement: top management individually pinging employees to know what they're working on and reassigning tasks, skipping the full chain of command.

  • Random deadlines that change at random times together with impossible goals.

  • Very bad practices.

  • Terrible infrastructure design from the root.

  • Any project that tries to improve things is considered a waste of time and canceled within 1-2 months.

  • It's basically a consulting company but only for their "product" full of tech debt.

  • Weak leadership: C-levels with no idea what they're doing and not listening to professional advice, pushing for tech debt and impossible/random goals, humiliating employees, dismissing achievements, not allowing for long-term roadmaps, only quick wins; middle management not protecting employees nor long-term projects, allowing and engaging in the micromanagement.

Advice to Management

Hire new people for the C-level positions with extensive technical knowledge and good practices.

If you want to have a real product that can scale, create realistic goals for the infrastructure, hire an architect, and engage in a long-term project.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
4.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
1.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
1.0

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