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Going Places - but Political

Principal Product Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at AT&T for 9 years
May 11, 2016
Redmond, Washington
3.0
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Pros

Decent benefits and pushing the edge of some innovation.

Good people to work with and a nice environment.

Lots of different teams/groups if you want to try something.

Good flexibility to work from home sometimes.

Cons

Very political, and the technology group leadership is getting extremely flat, with little to no ability to move your career forward.

Also, the technology group is taking the stance that almost everyone should be a coder, which, if not desirable, makes it challenging.

Seems to be difficult to switch groups.

Advice to Management

Prioritize projects to better allocate resources. Allow groups to be truly agile, and push all groups to be agile. As it stands, it's broken: some groups are agile, and some are not. Projects can't move forward because of other groups.

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