Cool Projects, Bad Promotions
Cool Projects, Bad Promotions
Bleeding-edge technology and projects.
Switching teams is encouraged.
Hard problems to solve.
Management doesn't have a clue about quality engineers. They promote people who they are buddy-buddy with, even if they write unmaintainable/unscalable code. They also give out the big projects based on this flawed criteria. No wonder the average tenure there is about 2 years.
Pay more attention to your engineers, promote those who deserve it, and give projects to those who deserve it.
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