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Easy To Hide, Flawed Engineering

Engineering
Current Employee
Has worked at Apptio for less than 1 year
July 21, 2020
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Easy to hide. Low engineering quality means you can be a rockstar easily. Very little oversight in some engineering teams. Some of the benefits are decent.

Cons

Management has no idea how to fix the main application. It's held together by overworked developers desperately trying to find the right place to put something in their massive Java codebase. Nobody seems to have a real understanding of how it actually works since the CTO left.

Leadership is made up of career political infighters who don't seem to want to work together. Very few have the technical ability to have a vision for the future, and those that do get shouted down.

The management team and HR pay lip service to diversity, but they actively suppress alternative viewpoints and will manage you out if you disagree with the decisions being made. They acquired Cloudability and then basically ripped the culture right out of the company, and the entire thing has started to fall apart.

We've just had a big round of layoffs.

It seems we intentionally pay below-market rate and have no additional compensation scheme because they were acquired by a private equity company and can't offer stock.

If you want to work here, you have to pass a ridiculous cognitive ability test, which is proven pseudo-science, but they won't even let you through the door unless you pass. I've referred Senior Amazon engineers, and they haven't been able to get an interview.

We're quietly offshoring jobs outside of their HQ to North Carolina and India.

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