AT&T

• Allow work from home
• Decent vacation package

Below market pay. The longer you stay at your job, the more underpaid you get. People with 4+ years experience are paid less than new college graduates. Think if you got yourself a Master’s degree they would bump your pay a tiny bit more? Not at all. They don’t even give you the title of software engineer, so you don’t look up the market rate of a software engineer.

Flexforce engineers are basically contractors within the company. You are contracted to a team in a different part of the company for X amount of time, but you really report to some random supervisor. Software engineers report to supervisors without any technical background. Have fun telling your boss what cool innovations you are working on. Good luck on getting your promotion after you did X and Y and Z and Alpha and Omega.

All the time, you hear leadership telling people to “do the right thing”, but that never applies to themselves. Leadership are not held accountable for their words.

The company uses a lot of old, outdated technology. You are basically there to keep the good old dinosaur alive another year, while leadership collects their bonuses and pensions. Your skills will become stagnant. The company doesn’t provide useful training. The company doesn’t even provide free coffee. They think coffee costs more than an engineer’s time.

Very high turnover. This place is really for you to get some work experience, while you search for better things to do at another company.

Do the right thing.